Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
6,097 people live in this town in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Sainte-Sigolène’s strongest is safety: an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 6.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Its overall grade, A+, puts it better than 98% of compared French towns. It ranks #3 of 15 in Haute-Loire. Cost of living is another plus: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for health and C+ for walkability.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · 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.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Sainte-Sigolène does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Sainte-Sigolène 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Sainte-Sigolène as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Dunières, 5.6 mi away.
14% 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 Sainte-Sigolène.
In all, 40 offenses reached the police record in Sainte-Sigolène in 2025. No compared town in Haute-Loire has less graded crime per resident than Sainte-Sigolène: it ranks first of 15. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Sainte-Sigolène (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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft, 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, 6.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
140 sales of houses and apartments in Sainte-Sigolène, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,671/m². Of the homes sold, 84% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,753/m² | 117 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Among adults, 22% have a degree. Sainte-Sigolène has a median age of 42.9 years.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Loire 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Sainte-Sigolène | Haute-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nearly one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Haute-Loire’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Sainte-Sigolène holds 2,600 jobs; 2,750 of its residents are in work, so 1 jobs each.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Sainte-Sigolène is Centre hospitalier de Firminy, 10.2 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 603 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 628, 4% more. Its care home for older people (103 places) counts its residents as Sainte-Sigolène’s; allowing for it, deaths were 13% below expected. 5 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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Museums and heritage in and near Sainte-Sigolène. Best known first.
Nothing in Sainte-Sigolène is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Sainte-Sigolène.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Sigolène | 6,097 | — | A+ | A | A+ | B− |
| Monistrol-sur-Loire | 8,823 | 4.5 | A− | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Saint-Didier-en-Velay | 3,523 | 4.6 | A+ | A | A+ | B |
| Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon | 2,688 | 5 | — | A− | — | C |
| Dunières | 2,670 | 5.8 | — | A | — | C+ |
| Beauzac | 2,954 | 6.5 | — | A | — | C− |
| Bas-en-Basset | 4,638 | 7 | A | A− | A+ | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 15 in Haute-Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 20 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,671/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Sainte-Sigolène grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Sainte-Sigolène is a commune of 6,097 people in the Communauté de communes Marches du Velay-Rochebaron. 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 4, 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.