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The town has 398 residents and lies in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Saint-Just-près-Brioude is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents. Holiday and other second homes account for 21% of homes.
The one thing Saint-Just-près-Brioude does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Just-près-Brioude as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château et sa chapelle, in Saint-Ilpize, 4.1 mi away.
32% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Just-près-Brioude is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Just-près-Brioude.
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Haute-Loire’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). Degrees are held by 26% of adults.
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Loire 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Just-près-Brioude | Haute-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 36% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 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
50 jobs are based in Saint-Just-près-Brioude, for 200 working residents (0.3 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €24,910 a year per consumption unit, close to both Haute-Loire’s towns (€25,730) and compared French towns (€25,970). 8.1% 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €6.66/m² a month. 10 houses and apartments changed hands in Saint-Just-près-Brioude from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Saint-Just-près-Brioude. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Saint-Just-près-Brioude as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Just-près-Brioude is a commune of 398 people in the Communauté de communes Brioude Sud Auvergne. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Just-près-Brioude | 398 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brioude | 6,527 | 4.9 | B− | A | D | B |
| Sainte-Florine | 3,283 | 12 | A− | A | A− | C− |
| Langeac | 3,499 | 13 | A+ | A | A− | B |
| Brassac-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 3,412 | 13 | B | A | B− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
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 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.