Find your town in Cantal
Cantal has 250 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 5 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 24 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
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Its 4 towns with an overall grade, in national order. With fewer than five, the département has no ranking.
4 towns · in national order
1 of these towns has a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of its index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
Towns without an overall grade
Each has its page and the subject grades it has. In France an overall grade needs a Safety Grade, and five graded subjects in all.
245 smaller towns and villages in Cantal
With the 5 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 250 communes of Cantal, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
221 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Cantal
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Cantal
How do the biggest towns in Cantal grade?
Aurillac (26,214 people) grades A− overall, with its best grade in walkability. Saint-Flour (6,391 people) grades A+ overall, with its best grade in cost of living.
Is every commune in Cantal on TownRatings?
Yes: all 250 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 5 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 24 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 221 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
A département ranks its towns when five or more have an overall grade; Cantal has 4. Ytrac has no overall grade; its page shows the grades it has, and why.
Photos: Saint-Flour, Mbelhomme1 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Arpajon-sur-Cère, Olybrius (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Mauriac, Béa at French Wikipedia (Public domain) · Aurillac, VegaLyre (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.