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A town of 8,726 in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Le Teil grades C− overall: better than 19% of compared French towns. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 13.7% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 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 overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Le Teil does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Teil 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.
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The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Le Teil: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 4th century; the first monument here was protected in 1875.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Teil.
In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Le Teil. The 2025 count: 245 offenses in the town. On the Safety Grade, Le Teil ranks 15th of the 16 compared towns in Ardèche. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 13.2 cases of violence against people and 18.5 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 · When armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (0.4% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.16/m² a month, close to Ardèche’s towns (€10.27/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Apartments in Le Teil sell for €1,257/m², houses for €1,944/m². Among the homes sold, 62% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,944/m² | 189 |
| Apartments | €1,257/m² | 115 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (107 places) counts its residents as Le Teil’s; allowing for it, deaths were 4% below expected. 956 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 878: 9% above. Life expectancy in Ardèche: 85.9 years for women and 79.7 for men (2025); France averages 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Ranked by results, schools here are #15 of 21 in Ardèche. The bac pass rate near Le Teil is 92.5%, lower than Ardèche’s towns (94.1%) and near compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marcel ChamontinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 135 | 76%−8 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Xavier MalletNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 121 | 97%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel privé Saint-André PrivateBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 35 | 91%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income is €21,980 a year per consumption unit. 13.7% of the labour force were unemployed, near Ardèche’s towns (13.3%) and higher than compared French towns (10.1%). Bus, tram or train carried 2.0% of working residents in Le Teil to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
8.4% of its homes were built before 1919, below Ardèche’s towns (13%) and close to compared French towns (7.4%). Among the classé monuments in Le Teil is Borne milliaire de Mélas. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 4th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
People 65 and over make up 22% of the town, below Ardèche’s towns (27%) and close to compared French towns (22%). The median resident of Le Teil is 43 years old. Those aged 15 to 24 account for just over one in ten residents.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardèche 52.7%, France 51.8%.
| Le Teil | Ardèche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardèche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Le Teil. Best known first.
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Le Teil: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
Borne milliaire de Mélas: Photo: Piero · Public domain · Église de Mélas: Photo: Jmerlant · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 3 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Le Teil as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Teil | 8,726 | — | C− | B+ | C− | C |
| Montélimar Drôme | 40,595 | 3.4 | D | C+ | D− | C+ |
| Châteauneuf-du-Rhône Drôme | 2,917 | 4.2 | D | C+ | C− | C− |
| Viviers | 3,633 | 4.4 | C− | B+ | C+ | C− |
| Montboucher-sur-Jabron Drôme | 2,592 | 6.2 | — | C− | — | A |
| Donzère Drôme | 6,008 | 7.5 | D | B+ | C | C− |
| Cruas | 2,898 | 8.6 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 25 burglaries and 59 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 37% of compared French towns and #15 of 21 in Ardèche. 97% of 121 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Xavier Mallet in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Le Teil grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Le Teil is a commune of 8,726 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.
