Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère’s strongest is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Households here earn well: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 3.1% unemployment. Health outcomes fall short of most towns (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It is hard to get around without a car (C−): 22% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère 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.
Each subject compares Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère 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.
SafetyNot graded: over a quarter of the index would rest on the département’s average, where small counts aren’t published–
SchoolsNot graded: no collège with published results within 5 km–
Hazard riskNot graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas–
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Grand dolmen de La Table au Loup ou Table de Maleu · Classé · Photo: VKaeru · CC BY-SA 4.0
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère’s story
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère in pictures
On the Culture ministry’s list, Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1911.
42% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
1911First protected: Grand dolmen de La Table au Loup ou Table de Maleu
2000Most recently protected: Château de Rochebrune
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère.
HousingCost of living A+
Estimated advertised rents run lower in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère than in Cantal’s towns or across compared French towns: €7.25/m² a month
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Homes sold for a median €989/m², lower than both Cantal’s towns (€1,411/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). From July 2023 to June 2026, 45 homes were sold in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère. The sales split: 96% houses, the rest apartments.
€989/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère€989/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Cantal median€1,411/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€998/m²
43
€7.25/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€5.16 to €10.20/m² a month)
2.8
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€7.00/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€24,450
median annual income per consumption unit, Saint-Flour Communauté
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth D
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère loses more people than its age profile suggests, 105 per 100 expected, above Cantal’s towns and compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Cantal is 84.4 years for women and 80.2 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 211 deaths in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère from 2016 to 2025; there were 222, 5% more. The nearest emergency department to Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère is Centre hospitalier de Saint Flour, 8.4 mi away. This Cantal town has 2 family doctors.
+5%deaths against expected, after care homesDHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw105
Adjusted105
Median town88
Expected100
2
GPs in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère · 3.7 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
8.4 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Saint Flour
8.4 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Saint Flour
84.4 · 80.2
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Cantal, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère has lower unemployment than Cantal’s towns or compared French towns: 3.1%
6.9% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Cantal’s towns (17.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). The median disposable income is €24,970 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 10.4% of working residents in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère didn’t travel to work at all.
7%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving83%
On foot6%
Bicycle1%
Public transport0%
Motorbike or scooter0%
400
jobs based in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère, 0.5 per working resident
3.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,970
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
10%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C−
Walkability: better than 20% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère has fewer young adults than Cantal’s towns or compared French towns: 6.9% are 15 to 24
14% of residents are children under 15. People 65 and over make up 29% of the town, about level with Cantal’s towns (28%) and above compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère by age and the one in the middle is 52.6.
52.6median age
Neuvéglise-sur-TruyèreCantal medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
29%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma19%
CAP or BEP28%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education24%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Cantal 53.4%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Cantal median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère keeps more of its old housing than Cantal’s towns or compared French towns: 42% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Most of the list is tombs and funerary monuments: 3 of 4. Among the classé monuments in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère is Grand dolmen de La Table au Loup ou Table de Maleu. On the Culture ministry’s list, Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second. Its heritage reaches back to prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Safety
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average
More of the graded crimes in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère were armed robbery than anything else (2025). Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.3 cases of violence against people and 1.2 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
2.3recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year
Recorded by type · 2025
Armed robbery0
Vehicle theft0
Theft from vehicles0
Fraud9
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.
2.3
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
1.2
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
0
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
100.0%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and criminal damage go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 100.0% of the index here.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
Menhir christianisé de La Croix-Grosse: Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Menhir de Bargueyrac ou de la Pierre Plantade: Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Grand dolmen de La Table au Loup ou Table de Maleu: Photo: VKaeru · CC BY-SA 4.0
Famous people from Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère
2 notable people were born in Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère.
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère
Is Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère safe?
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Is Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère grades A+ for cost of living.
About Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère
Commune in Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère is a commune of 1,677 people in the Saint-Flour Communauté. 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
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.
