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The town, home to 1,297 people, lies in Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Where it does best is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags (C−). Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for jobs & income and B− for walkability. A fifth of homes here are second homes.
Le Rouget-Pers 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 3 things Le Rouget-Pers does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Rouget-Pers 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.
Le Rouget-Pers has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Le Rouget-Pers as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle Saint-Pierre, in Boisset, 5.4 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 Le Rouget-Pers.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,617/m², comes from 34 sales of houses and apartments in Le Rouget-Pers from July 2023 to June 2026. From July 2023 to June 2026, 34 homes were sold in the town.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,617/m² | 34 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 13%, higher than Cantal’s towns (12%) yet lower than compared French towns (17%). People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town. Graduates make up 19% of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Cantal 53.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Le Rouget-Pers | Cantal median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Cantal median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 359 residents of Le Rouget-Pers died, against 259 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 39% more. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Le Rouget-Pers come to 100 per 100 predicted. The nearest emergency department to Le Rouget-Pers is Centre hospitalier Henri Mondor Aurillac, 11.1 mi away. At birth, a girl in Cantal can expect 84.4 years and a boy 80.2 (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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Unemployment stands at 7.1%. Jobs based in Le Rouget-Pers number 400, against 450 residents in work (0.9 per worker). 6.2% of Le Rouget-Pers’ working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Le Rouget-Pers is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Le Rouget-Pers.
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 Rouget-Pers | 1,297 | — | — | A | — | C− |
| Ytrac | 4,339 | 7.7 | — | A | — | B− |
| Aurillac | 26,214 | 11 | A− | A | C+ | C+ |
| Arpajon-sur-Cère | 6,361 | 12 | A | A− | A+ | B− |
| Saint-Céré Lot | 3,429 | 17 | A− | B+ | A− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Rouget-Pers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.1 recorded violent incidents and 2.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,617/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Le Rouget-Pers grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Le Rouget-Pers is a commune of 1,297 people in the Communauté de communes de la Châtaigneraie Cantalienne. 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.