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A town of 2,139 in Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Saint-Uze has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C−): 0.6 jobs per working resident; 10.8% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Saint-Uze does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Uze 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Uze as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château et ses jardins à la française, in Saint-Vallier, 2.2 mi away.
15% 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 Saint-Uze.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,995/m², below Drôme’s towns (€2,388/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. 72 houses and apartments changed hands in Saint-Uze from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses were 97% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,016/m² | 70 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nearly one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Drôme’s towns (10.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Households’ median disposable income: €24,950 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 3.2% of working residents in Saint-Uze didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
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 175 deaths in Saint-Uze from 2016 to 2025; there were 158, 10% fewer. There is one general practitioner locally.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Just over a quarter of adults hold a degree, lower than both Drôme’s towns (32%) and compared French towns (30%). People aged 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population. Those 65 and older account for 21% of residents.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Uze | Drôme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Drôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest collège is 2.1 mi off. The bac pass rate near Saint-Uze is 93.3%, in line with Drôme’s towns (93.3%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège André CotteNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 138 | 83%−4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Henri LaurensNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 125 | 97%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Over 2025, Saint-Uze logged 32 recorded offenses. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 2.7 violent offenses and 12.2 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. The commonest graded crime locally was burglary (2025).
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.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 28.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Saint-Uze. Best known first.
Nothing in Saint-Uze is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Saint-Uze as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Uze | 2,139 | — | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Saint-Vallier | 4,027 | 2.2 | C+ | A | D | C |
| Anneyron | 4,169 | 6.2 | A | C+ | A | A |
| Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse | 4,193 | 7.3 | C | B | C+ | C− |
| Vernosc-lès-Annonay Ardèche | 2,725 | 7.5 | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Saint-Rambert-d'Albon | 7,001 | 7.6 | D | B | D | C |
| Mercurol-Veaunes | 2,816 | 7.9 | — | B− | — | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Uze has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 52% of compared French towns. The lycée stands out: 97% of 125 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Henri Laurens in 2025, 3 points above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saint-Uze grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Uze is a commune of 2,139 people in the Communauté de communes Porte de DrômArdèche. 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) · 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.