Is Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux a good place to live?
Neither a standout nor a worry on most counts. Its strongest is schools (B+): brevet results at the expected rate. What counts against it is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Overall, that makes a B+, better than 72% of compared French towns. The ranking puts it #7 of 36 in Drôme. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety, B for health and B for jobs & income.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
How Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux grades
Each subject compares Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux 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.
Ancienne cathédrale, actuellement église paroissiale: Photo: EmDee · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Porte Notre-Dame: Photo: Remi Mathis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ilot de la Tour Juiverie: Photo: Celeda · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hôtel de Bimard: Photo: Celeda · CC BY-SA 4.0
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.
History
7 historic monuments and a protected historic area since 2006
7historic monuments
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux has 7.8 protected monuments for every 10,000 residents. A protected historic area (site patrimonial remarquable) has covered part of the town since 2006. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. Among the classé monuments here is Ancienne cathédrale, actuellement église paroissiale.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income B
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux has 1.6 jobs for every resident in work
10%walk, cycle or take transit
Households’ median disposable income: €26,860 a year per consumption unit. 11.6% of the labour force were unemployed, above Drôme’s towns (10.5%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Bus, tram or train carried 2.3% of working residents in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to work at the census.
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving86%
On foot5%
Bicycle3%
Public transport2%
Motorbike or scooter1%
5,750
jobs based in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, 1.6 per working resident
11.6%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,860
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B+
Walkability: better than 67% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HousingCost of living C+
The median sale price of homes in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is €2,463/m²
€2,463/m²median sale price
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux sell for €1,898/m², houses for €2,655/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €11.08/m² a month, close to Drôme’s towns (€11.33/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The sales split: 71% houses, the rest apartments.
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux€2,463/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Drôme median€2,388/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,655/m²
187
Apartments
€1,898/m²
75
€11.08/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.94 to €13.74/m² a month)
6.8
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€11.37/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€25,380
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Drôme Sud Provence
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
More people in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux hold a degree than in Drôme’s towns or compared French towns: 35%
45.4median age
25% of residents are 65 or over, close to Drôme’s towns (23%) and above compared French towns (22%). At 45.4, the median resident of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux sits in the middle of the age range. Aged 15 to 24: one in ten residents.
Saint-Paul-Trois-ChâteauxDrôme medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
25%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma18%
CAP or BEP22%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education35%
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Drôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
HealthHealth B
Allowing for age and care homes, deaths in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux run lower than in 56% of compared French towns
−14%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is Centre hospitalier Jules Niel de Valreas, 11.3 mi away. Its care home for older people (98 places) counts its residents as Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux’s; allowing for it, deaths were 14% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 848 residents of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux died, against 897 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% fewer. In Drôme, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.7 years for women and 80.6 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw95
Adjusted86
Median town88
Expected100
7
GPs in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux · 2.9 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
11.3 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Jules Niel de Valreas
14.1 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Louis Giorgi D Orange
85.7 · 80.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Drôme, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux ranks below 53% of compared French towns for crime per resident
7.2recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearB−Safety Grade
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 7.2 violent offenses and 13.5 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. 2025 saw 206 offenses recorded in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux. The town has 5,750 jobs for 3,500 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (2025).
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage80
Burglary29
Other physical violence27
Theft from vehicles24
Family violence17
Vehicle theft15
Sexual violence14
Theft without violence59
Fraud55
Drug use24
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.
7.2
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
13.5
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
206
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
0.6%
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 · For armed robbery, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 0.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
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Everything we know about Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is a commune of 8,981 people in the Communauté de communes Drôme Sud Provence. 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
8,981 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Drôme Sud Provence
Département
Drôme (26)
Région
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Area
8.5 sq mi (22.1 km²)
INSEE code
26324
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux’s neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
Is Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux safe?
It grades B− for safety, #13 of 36 in Drôme. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 29 burglaries and 80 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux good?
They grade B+, better than 70% of compared French towns and #4 of 32 in Drôme. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux expensive to live in?
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux grades C+ for cost of living.
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.
