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Some 1,034 people live in this town, in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns (A+): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is a quarter of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 37% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The weak point is walkability: 56% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Pupils here do less well than most: brevet results 6 points below the expected rate.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Saint-Romain-de-Lerps 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.
The one thing Saint-Romain-de-Lerps does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Romain-de-Lerps 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.
Saint-Romain-de-Lerps has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Monument aux morts, in Valence, 5.3 mi away.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 28 homes in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Ardèche can expect 85.9 years and a boy 79.7 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 38 deaths in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 60: 37% below. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Romain-de-Lerps is Clinique Pasteur, 5.1 mi away.
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.
Jobs based in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps number 100, against 500 residents in work (0.2 per worker). The census found 3.4% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Half of residents lived on more than €26,870 a year per consumption unit, above Ardèche’s towns (€22,735) and close to compared French towns (€25,970).
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 5 mi off. At the collèges within 5 km of Saint-Romain-de-Lerps, 89.0% passed the brevet, close to both Ardèche’s towns (87.6%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de CrussolNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 110 | 89%−6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group makes up 8.4% of residents. 16% of residents are 65 or over, below both Ardèche’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up just over two in five adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ardèche 52.7%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Romain-de-Lerps | Ardèche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardèche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people averaged 4.6 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 4.1. The commonest graded crime in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps was sexual violence (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 · When family violence, other physical violence, vehicle theft and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (100.0% of the index here).
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Saint-Romain-de-Lerps. Best known first.
Nothing in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Romain-de-Lerps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Romain-de-Lerps | 1,034 | — | — | A+ | — | A+ |
| Saint-Péray | 7,580 | 3.2 | A− | C+ | A− | A− |
| La Roche-de-Glun Drôme | 3,569 | 3.6 | A | C | A+ | A− |
| Pont-de-l'Isère Drôme | 3,681 | 4 | D | C | C− | D |
| Guilherand-Granges | 11,235 | 4.7 | A− | C+ | B+ | B+ |
| Bourg-lès-Valence Drôme | 19,992 | 5.1 | C | C+ | C | B− |
| Tournon-sur-Rhône | 11,279 | 6 | B | B | C | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Romain-de-Lerps has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 24% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Romain-de-Lerps is a commune of 1,034 people in the Communauté de communes Rhône Crussol. 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) · 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 4, 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.