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A town of 2,898 in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Cruas has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 11 points below the expected rate. Its strongest is cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Cruas does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cruas with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
Cruas has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists 4 historic monuments in Cruas: 4 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from Antiquity; the first monument here was protected in 1862.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cruas.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Results rank its schools #20 of 21 in Ardèche. The nearest general lycée is 5.9 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Albert MercoyrolNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 77 | 79%−11 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,966/m²: 68 houses and apartments sold in Cruas between July 2023 and June 2026. The sales split: 79% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,092/m² | 54 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Households’ median disposable income: €25,660 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 9.4% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Ardèche’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). The jobless rate is 9.9%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
2 GPs practise in Cruas. Its care home for older people (82 places) counts its residents as Cruas’; allowing for it, deaths were 8% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 391 residents of Cruas died, against 306 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 28% more. Life expectancy at birth in Ardèche is 85.9 years for women and 79.7 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
7.7% of homes date from before 1919. Among the classé monuments in Cruas is Deux bornes milliaires gallo-romaines. The earliest of these monuments dates from Antiquity.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Those 65 and older account for 20% of residents. 9.4% of residents are 15 to 24, below Ardèche’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. The median resident of Cruas is 42.9 years old.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardèche 52.7%, France 51.8%.
| Cruas | Ardèche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardèche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Cruas has 3,100 jobs for 1,200 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. In 2025, 29 offenses were recorded here. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.4 violent offenses and 7.5 graded property crimes a year. More of the graded crimes here were criminal damage than anything else (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 27.0% of the index here. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Cruas. Best known first.
The Culture ministry lists 4 historic monuments in Cruas: 4 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
Deux bornes milliaires gallo-romaines: Photo: Toutaitanous · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Château (ruines): Photo: Rémi Mathis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cruas yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruas | 2,898 | — | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Chomérac | 3,183 | 6.1 | — | B | — | B |
| Le Pouzin | 2,886 | 6.5 | C | B− | C | B− |
| Loriol-sur-Drôme Drôme | 6,614 | 7 | C− | B | D | B− |
| Montélimar Drôme | 40,595 | 7.1 | D | C+ | D− | C+ |
| Montboucher-sur-Jabron Drôme | 2,592 | 7.5 | — | C− | — | A |
| Le Teil | 8,726 | 8.6 | C− | B+ | C− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cruas has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 2% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,966/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Cruas grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Cruas is a commune of 2,898 people in the Communauté de communes Ardèche Rhône Coiron. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.