Saint-Amour’s standout strength is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is easy to get around without a car: 82% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 19% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety, C+ for health and B− for jobs & income. The median price paid is €1,630/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Saint-Amour 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.
Each subject compares Saint-Amour 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.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Amour.
Work & commuteJobs & income B−
For walkability, Saint-Amour ranks above 83% of compared French towns
Half of residents lived on more than €24,110 a year per consumption unit, about level with Jura’s towns (€24,890) and below compared French towns (€25,970). Per resident in work, Saint-Amour counts 1.7 jobs (1,650 jobs, 950 workers). At the census, 5.4% of working residents in Saint-Amour didn’t travel to work at all.
19%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving74%
On foot12%
Public transport4%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter1%
1,650
jobs based in Saint-Amour, 1.7 per working resident
10.0%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,110
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
5%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
A−
Walkability: better than 83% of compared French towns
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Older residents shape Saint-Amour: 28% are 65 or over, above Jura’s towns and compared French towns
Children under 15 make up 14%, close to Jura’s towns (14%) and below compared French towns (17%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for just over one in ten residents. Residents of Saint-Amour have a median age of 48.4.
48.4median age
Saint-AmourJura medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
28%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma23%
CAP or BEP29%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education24%
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Jura median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
More protected monuments for its size in Saint-Amour than in Jura or compared French towns: 38 per 10,000 residents
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 18% of the total. A protected historic area (site patrimonial remarquable) has covered part of the town since 1998. On the Culture ministry’s list, Saint-Amour counts 9 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 8 inscrit at the second. The oldest protected building goes back to the 16th century.
9historic monuments
Monuments by protection · Mérimée
Classé1
Inscrit8
16th c.
oldest protected part
1933
first monument protected
1998
protected historic area (site patrimonial remarquable)
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth C+
Saint-Amour is 15.9 mi from the nearest emergency department
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Saint-Amour records 90 deaths per 100 expected. There are 4 general practitioners locally. Life expectancy at birth in Jura is 85.1 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 373 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 501, 34% more.
−10%deaths against expected, after care homesC+Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw134
Adjusted90
Median town88
Expected100
4
GPs in Saint-Amour · 2.2 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
15.9 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Bourg En Bresse Fleyriat
15.9 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Bourg En Bresse Fleyriat
85.1 · 78.9
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Jura, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Per resident, Saint-Amour sees less crime than 52% of compared French towns
Of the graded crimes in Saint-Amour, criminal damage came up most often (2025). The 2025 count: 44 offenses locally. Violence against people averaged 8.6 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 12.3.
8.6recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearB−Safety Grade
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage14
Burglary13
Other physical violence9
Family violence8
Fraud17
Theft without violence10
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.
8.6
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
12.3
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
44
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
7.2%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When sexual violence, armed robbery, 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 (7.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nearby attractions
Tour Saint-Guillaume and 3 more in and around Saint-Amour
Heritage and museums in and near Saint-Amour. Best known first.
Tour Saint-Guillaume (ensemble): Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Monastère des Annonciades: Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Auditoire et prisons: Photo: Jade · CC BY-SA 4.0
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Saint-Amour
Is Saint-Amour safe?
It grades B− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 14 acts of criminal damage.
Is Saint-Amour expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saint-Amour grades A− for cost of living.
About Saint-Amour
Commune in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Saint-Amour is a commune of 2,349 people in the Communauté de communes Porte du Jura. 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
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.
