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A town of 1,745 in Hérault, Occitanie.
Claret has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its strongest is health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Claret 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 1 historic monument in Claret: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1933.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Claret.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Claret sits below both Hérault’s towns (89) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 170 residents of Claret died, against 182 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 6% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
That puts Claret below both Hérault’s towns (11.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Claret has 350 jobs for 800 working residents, 0.4 per worker.
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.
On this, Claret is above both Hérault’s towns (8.8%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Claret: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level). Among the classé monuments in Claret is Église Saint-Félix.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That is the middle of 37 sales of houses and apartments in Claret from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €3,252/m² for the median of compared towns in Hérault.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,139/m² | 36 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Claret comes above both Hérault’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8.2% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Claret | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hérault median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 19 offenses in the graded categories in Claret in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary 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, 57.7% of the index here.
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
Heritage and museums in and near Claret. Best known first.
Claret has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Félix: Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Claret 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claret | 1,745 | — | — | B− | — | A− |
| Quissac Gard | 3,528 | 6 | C | C | A− | B− |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers | 4,979 | 6.7 | A+ | C− | A+ | A |
| Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort Gard | 3,737 | 7.4 | C− | B+ | B− | D |
| Saint-Drézéry | 3,006 | 9.7 | — | D | — | A+ |
| Saint-Martin-de-Londres | 2,696 | 9.9 | — | B− | — | A |
| Sommières Gard | 5,073 | 11 | D | C | D− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Claret has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4 recorded violent incidents and 9.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.84/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Claret grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Claret is a commune of 1,745 people in the Communauté de communes du Grand Pic Saint-Loup. 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 October 30, 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.