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1,488 people call this town in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest subject is jobs & income: 0.7 jobs per working resident; 13.2% unemployment. It also trails on health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 4% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Holiday and other second homes account for 19% of homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Vorey 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.
The 3 things Vorey does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vorey 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.
Vorey has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Vorey as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Maurice-de-Roche, in Roche-en-Régnier, 3.6 mi away.
23% 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 Vorey.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €1,337/m², below Haute-Loire’s towns (€1,646/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Sales in Vorey from July 2023 to June 2026: 63 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,337/m² | 63 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 make up 7.9% of the town, below both Haute-Loire’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Just over a fifth of adults hold a degree. Vorey has a median age of 53.8.
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Loire 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Vorey | Haute-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 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.
Adjusted mortality in Vorey: 96 deaths for every 100 expected. 296 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 229: 29% above. The nearest emergency department to Vorey is Centre hospitalier du Puy En Velay, 9.4 mi away. 2 GPs practise 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Unemployment stood at 13.2%, higher than both Haute-Loire’s towns (10.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 6.7% of working residents in Vorey didn’t travel to work at all. Just over one in ten commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, 14 offenses were recorded in Vorey. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 6.4 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 10. Also worth knowing: the commonest graded crime in the town was family violence (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 · When other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (33.0% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Vorey 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 Vorey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vorey | 1,488 | — | — | A+ | — | C |
| Retournac | 3,007 | 6.1 | A | A | A | B− |
| Polignac | 2,819 | 8.3 | — | B+ | — | B |
| Chadrac | 2,542 | 8.7 | — | B | — | A− |
| Brives-Charensac | 4,244 | 9.6 | A | A− | B+ | B |
| Espaly-Saint-Marcel | 3,585 | 9.9 | A+ | A− | B+ | A− |
| Le Puy-en-Velay | 18,540 | 10 | B | A− | D | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Vorey has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Vorey grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Vorey is a commune of 1,488 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Puy-en-Velay. 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.