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The town has 4,239 residents and lies in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Easy on the wallet, harder on other counts. Safety is its strong suit: an average of 2.1 recorded violent incidents and 8.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Add cost of living to its strengths: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its schools fall short: brevet results 5 points below the expected rate. Most journeys need a car (C): 55% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The overall grade comes out at B+, #13 of 15 in Haute-Loire. On that grade it does better than 67% of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: C+ for health and C+ for jobs & income.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Saint-Just-Malmont does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Just-Malmont 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-Just-Malmont as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Unité d'habitation construite par Le Corbusier, in Firminy, 2.9 mi away.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Saint-Just-Malmont. Best known first.
ChurchÉglise Saint-Pierre de Firminy5 km northwest, in FirminyAttractionAttractionMaison de la culture de Firminy-Vert4.9 km northwest, in FirminyAttractionAttractionUnité d'habitation de Firminy-Vert4.6 km northwest, in FirminyAttractionAttractionStade de Firminy-Vert4.9 km northwest, in FirminyAttractionAttractionChâteau des Bruneaux4.8 km northwest, in FirminyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Just-Malmont.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its schools’ results rank #19 of 19 in Haute-Loire. A collège lies 3.1 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège les BruneauxNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 52 | 81%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,097/m², comes from 110 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Just-Malmont from July 2023 to June 2026. The town is the most expensive of the 24 towns in Haute-Loire: its median sale is €2,097/m². Of the homes sold, 78% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,180/m² | 86 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For its 1,800 residents in work, Saint-Just-Malmont has 1,300 jobs: 0.7 each. 2.9% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €26,380 a year.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 65-and-over age group makes up a fifth of residents. Graduates make up just over a quarter of adults. At 44.2, the median resident of Saint-Just-Malmont sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Loire 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Just-Malmont | Haute-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Saint-Just-Malmont has 4 family doctors. Adjusted for age and care homes, Saint-Just-Malmont records 90 deaths per 100 expected, about level with both Haute-Loire’s towns (87) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 382 residents of Saint-Just-Malmont died, against 350 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 9% more. In Haute-Loire, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.7 years for women and 80 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Nothing in Saint-Just-Malmont 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 Saint-Just-Malmont 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Just-Malmont | 4,239 | — | B+ | A− | A+ | C+ |
| Saint-Didier-en-Velay | 3,523 | 3.2 | A+ | A | A+ | B |
| Firminy Loire | 17,060 | 3.3 | B− | A | D | B |
| Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 12,314 | 3.6 | C+ | A− | C− | C |
| Fraisses Loire | 3,872 | 3.7 | B+ | B | B+ | B |
| Unieux Loire | 8,514 | 4.6 | B | B | C+ | A |
| La Ricamarie Loire | 8,039 | 4.9 | B+ | A | D | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #3 of 15 in Haute-Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 18 burglaries and 28 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 11% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,097/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Just-Malmont grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Just-Malmont is a commune of 4,239 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
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.