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With 1,045 residents, it is a town in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Laurac-en-Vivarais’s strongest subject is cost of living (A): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 32% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Work and incomes lag: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 10.9% unemployment. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for schools and B for walkability. 17% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Laurac-en-Vivarais has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Laurac-en-Vivarais 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.
Laurac-en-Vivarais has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Laurac-en-Vivarais does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Laurac-en-Vivarais as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Maison Bastide (annexe de la mairie), in Largentière, 2.4 mi away.
31% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Laurac-en-Vivarais is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Laurac-en-Vivarais.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in Laurac-en-Vivarais: 19 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. House rents are put at about €9.01/m² a month.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 65-and-over age group makes up 30% of residents. Degrees are held by 23% of adults, below Ardèche’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. The median resident of Laurac-en-Vivarais is 51.2 years old.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardèche 52.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Laurac-en-Vivarais | Ardèche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.9% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardèche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
One GP practises in Laurac-en-Vivarais. The nearest emergency department to Laurac-en-Vivarais is Ch Ardeche Meridionale Aubenas, 9 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 139 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 114, 18% fewer. At birth, a girl in Ardèche can expect 85.9 years and a boy 79.7 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
Half of residents lived on more than €23,850 a year per consumption unit, between Ardèche’s towns (€22,735) and compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 5.8% of working residents in Laurac-en-Vivarais at the census. The unemployment rate comes to 10.9%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 8.9 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège la SégalièreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 47 | 89%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Laurac-en-Vivarais. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Laurac-en-Vivarais yet.
Commune in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Laurac-en-Vivarais is a commune of 1,045 people in the Communauté de communes Val de Ligne. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurac-en-Vivarais | 1,045 | — | — | A | — | B+ |
| Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon | 2,920 | 7.5 | A | C+ | A | B |
| Aubenas | 12,416 | 9 | B+ | B | D | A− |
| Les Vans | 2,662 | 11 | C | C | C | B |
| Villeneuve-de-Berg | 3,031 | 11 | C | B+ | B+ | C− |
| Vals-les-Bains | 3,474 | 11 | A− | B | B+ | B+ |
| Bessèges Gard | 2,606 | 18 | C+ | A | C+ | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Laurac-en-Vivarais has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.1 recorded violent incidents and 8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B, better than 56% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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 November 8, 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.