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1,456 people call this town in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
La Séauve-sur-Semène’s strongest subject is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is another plus (A) — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 29% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 86% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,341/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. La Séauve-sur-Semène 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 La Séauve-sur-Semène 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.
La Séauve-sur-Semène has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The one thing La Séauve-sur-Semène does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in La Séauve-sur-Semène; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1993.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →La Séauve-sur-Semène has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Séauve-sur-Semène.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €8.84/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 47 homes in La Séauve-sur-Semène. Houses were 49% of what sold.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Haute-Loire is 85.7 years for women and 80 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 90 residents of La Séauve-sur-Semène died, against 128 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 29% fewer. The nearest emergency department to La Séauve-sur-Semène is Centre hospitalier de Firminy, 6.6 mi away. 6 GPs practise here.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 3.2 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 1.1 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Roger RuelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 127 | 92%−2 pts |
| Collège Jeanne d'Arc PrivateBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 77 | 99%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Aged 15 to 24: just over one in ten residents. 17% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Haute-Loire’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). The age that splits La Séauve-sur-Semène in two is 39.3.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Loire 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| La Séauve-sur-Semène | Haute-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Per resident in work, La Séauve-sur-Semène counts 0.6 jobs (400 jobs, 700 workers). Unemployment stood at 7.6%, below Haute-Loire’s towns (10.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. 3.2% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in La Séauve-sur-Semène; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage in and near La Séauve-sur-Semène. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in La Séauve-sur-Semène yet.
Commune in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
La Séauve-sur-Semène is a commune of 1,456 people in the Communauté de communes Loire et Semène. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Séauve-sur-Semène | 1,456 | — | — | A+ | — | A |
| Saint-Didier-en-Velay | 3,523 | 1.3 | A+ | A | A+ | B |
| Sainte-Sigolène | 6,097 | 3.7 | A+ | A | A+ | B− |
| Monistrol-sur-Loire | 8,823 | 4 | A− | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Saint-Just-Malmont | 4,239 | 4.4 | B+ | A− | A+ | C+ |
| Aurec-sur-Loire | 6,164 | 5.5 | A | A− | A− | B+ |
| Fraisses Loire | 3,872 | 6.2 | B+ | B | B+ | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Séauve-sur-Semène has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 7.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A−, better than 84% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so La Séauve-sur-Semène grades A+ for cost of living.
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 November 9, 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.