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MenetCantal

A town of 521 in Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Is Menet a good place to live?

Menet is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents.

What makes Menet stand out

The 3 things Menet does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Église Saint-Pierre
Église Saint-Pierre · Classé · Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0
Menet’s story

Menet in pictures

The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Menet: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).

The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1922.

47% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1922First protected: Église Saint-Pierre
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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Menet.

Who lives here

Menet has fewer young adults than Cantal’s towns or compared French towns: 6.5% are 15 to 24

That puts Menet below both Cantal’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up 29% of the town.

51.9median age
MenetCantal medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma17%
CAP or BEP30%
Baccalauréat23%
Higher education23%

Women and men · all residents

45% women, 55% men

About 121 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Cantal 53.4%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Menet
MenetCantal medianFrance median
Under 1514%12%17%
15–246.5%10%11%
25–4422%20%23%
45–6429%27%26%
65+29%28%22%
No diploma17%20%19%
CAP or BEP30%27%26%
Baccalauréat23%19%18%
Higher education23%26%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Cantal median and France median: the median of compared communes

History

Menet keeps more of its old housing than Cantal or compared French towns: 47% built before 1919

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

On this, Menet is above both Cantal’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Menet: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level). Among the classé monuments in Menet is Église Saint-Pierre.

1historic monument

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé1
Inscrit0

Among them · Classé

12th c.
oldest protected part
1922
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Work & commute

Fewer commuters in Menet walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Cantal’s towns or compared French towns: 1.8%

In the comparison, Menet comes below both Cantal’s towns (17.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment stands at 6.8%. Menet has 50 jobs for 200 working residents, 0.3 per worker.

2%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving88%
On foot1%
Motorbike or scooter0%
Bicycle0%
Public transport0%
50
jobs based in Menet, 0.3 per working resident
6.8%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€23,370
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
10%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Buying in Menet costs less than in Cantal’s towns or across compared French towns: the median sale is €1,054/m²

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

For Menet, that is below both Cantal’s towns (€1,411/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²).

€1,054/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Menet€1,054/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Cantal median€1,411/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€1,046/m²31
€9.35/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€6.88 to €12.71/m² a month)
€6.59/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Menet

12pages on Menet

Landmarks

Menet has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.

All monuments →
Photo credits

Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0

Famous people from Menet

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Menet yet.

How we find them →

Menet’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Cantal →
MauriacMauriacMenet
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Menet521—————
Mauriac3,44914AA+CB−

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Menet

Commune in Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Menet is a commune of 521 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Gentiane. 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

Population
521 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes du Pays Gentiane
Département
Cantal (15)
Région
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Area
10.6 sq mi (27.4 km²)
INSEE code
15124

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.