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PiégonDrôme

A town of 240 in Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Is Piégon a good place to live?

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

What makes Piégon stand out

The 2 things Piégon does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Chapelle Notre-Dame du Cadenet
Chapelle Notre-Dame du Cadenet · Inscrit · Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 3.0
Piégon’s story

Piégon in pictures

The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Piégon, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.

27% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

Gaston Marcellin, born in 1882, is the one person born in Piégon before 1900 that Wikidata records.

  • 1994First protected: Chapelle Notre-Dame du Cadenet
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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Piégon.

Who lives here

Piégon has fewer young adults than Drôme’s towns or compared French towns: 5.7% are 15 to 24

Piégon sits below both Drôme’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (11%) on this measure. 33% of residents are 65 or over.

54.7median age
PiégonDrôme medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma16%
CAP or BEP25%
Baccalauréat24%
Higher education30%

Women and men · all residents

50% women, 50% men

About an even split. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Piégon
PiégonDrôme medianFrance median
Under 1514%18%17%
15–245.7%9.8%11%
25–4417%23%23%
45–6430%26%26%
65+33%23%22%
No diploma16%20%19%
CAP or BEP25%25%26%
Baccalauréat24%18%18%
Higher education30%32%30%

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

History

Piégon keeps more of its old housing than Drôme or compared French towns: 27% built before 1919

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

That puts Piégon above both Drôme’s towns (8.7%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Piégon, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.

1historic monument

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé0
Inscrit1
1994
first monument protected
27%
of homes built before 1919 · median town 7.4%

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

Work & commute

Fewer people in Piégon are out of work than in Drôme’s towns or across compared French towns: 1.9%

On this, Piégon is below both Drôme’s towns (10.5%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Piégon has 50 jobs for 100 working residents, 0.4 per worker. 4.1% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.

4%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving87%
On foot3%
Public transport1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Bicycle0%
50
jobs based in Piégon, 0.4 per working resident
1.9%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,090
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
8%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

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

Housing

Estimated advertised rents run lower in Piégon than in Drôme’s towns or across compared French towns: €10.24/m² a month

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

In the comparison, Piégon comes below both Drôme’s towns (€11.33/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²).

€10.24/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Piégon€10.24/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Drôme median€11.33/m²
€10.24/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.29 to €12.66/m² a month)
€9.09/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Cave du Prieuré and 5 more in and around Piégon

Other places to visit, heritage and family days out in and near Piégon. Best known first.

All attractions →
Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
Keep exploring

Everything we know about Piégon

12pages on Piégon

Landmarks

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

All monuments →
Photo credits

Chapelle Notre-Dame du Cadenet: Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 3.0

Famous people from Piégon

One notable person was born in Piégon.

Their page →

Piégon’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 Drôme →
Vaison-la-RomaineNyonsMalaucèneValréasSainte-Cécile-les-VignesBédoinVaison-la-RomaineNyonsMalaucèneValréasSainte-Cécile-les-VignesBédoinPiégon
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Piégon240—————
Vaison-la-Romaine Vaucluse6,0584.1B−CC+B
Nyons6,8164.6C−C−CB−
Malaucène Vaucluse2,7588.1C−CB−C−
Valréas Vaucluse9,2248.7C−B+C+C−
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes Vaucluse2,65612—C+—C+
Bédoin Vaucluse3,10612—D—A−

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

About Piégon

Commune in Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Piégon is a commune of 240 people in the Communauté de communes des Baronnies en Drôme Provençale. 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
240 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes des Baronnies en Drôme Provençale
Département
Drôme (26)
Région
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Area
4 sq mi (10.3 km²)
INSEE code
26233

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 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.