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With 1,394 residents, it is a town in Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 22% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It is hard to get around without a car: nearly a quarter of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Beaumont-Monteux 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 Beaumont-Monteux 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.
Beaumont-Monteux 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 Beaumont-Monteux as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Taurobole en pierre, in Tain-l'Hermitage, 5.1 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 Beaumont-Monteux.
6.4% of people in the labour force have no job. At the census, 3.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Drôme’s towns (10.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Jobs located in Beaumont-Monteux: 300, for 650 residents in work (0.5 each).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 2 general practitioners in Beaumont-Monteux. Life expectancy in Drôme: 85.7 years for women and 80.6 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 86 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 67, 22% fewer.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
People 65 and over make up 16% of the town. Nearly a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, lower than both Drôme’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (11%). Half of Beaumont-Monteux is older than 40.3, half younger.
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Beaumont-Monteux | Drôme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Drôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in Beaumont-Monteux: 23 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Beaumont-Monteux 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 Beaumont-Monteux 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont-Monteux | 1,394 | — | — | C+ | — | A− |
| Châteauneuf-sur-Isère | 4,281 | 1.7 | B+ | C− | A− | B |
| Pont-de-l'Isère | 3,681 | 2.8 | D | C | C− | D |
| La Roche-de-Glun | 3,569 | 3.5 | A | C | A+ | A− |
| Mercurol-Veaunes | 2,816 | 3.6 | — | B− | — | A− |
| Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence | 6,176 | 4.2 | C | C | C− | B+ |
| Tain-l'Hermitage | 5,915 | 4.8 | B | B− | C− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Beaumont-Monteux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Beaumont-Monteux is a commune of 1,394 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Arche Agglo. 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.