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A town in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, home to 4,504 people.
Good on most counts; one lags. Where it does best is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Lamotte-Beuvron ranks #10 of 22 in Loir-et-Cher, with a B+ overall. On that grade it does better than two thirds of compared French towns. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here (B+): 71% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 17% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. What counts against it is schools (C−) — brevet results 6 points below the expected rate. A 70 m² home at the median €1,651/m² costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Cœur de Sologne. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for safety and B for jobs & income.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Lamotte-Beuvron 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 2 things Lamotte-Beuvron does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Lamotte-Beuvron as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancien presbytère, in Vouzon, 3.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Lamotte-Beuvron 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 Lamotte-Beuvron.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its collèges and lycées rank #13 of 21 in Loir-et-Cher on results. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 16.9 mi away. Near Lamotte-Beuvron, 87.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, about level with compared French towns (87.5%) and above Loir-et-Cher’s towns (85.0%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean RostandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 103 | 87%−6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 638 residents of Lamotte-Beuvron died, against 746 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 15% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Lamotte-Beuvron is Chru D Orleans Hopital de la Source, 17.1 mi away. 5 GPs practise here. Life expectancy in Loir-et-Cher: 85.2 years for women and 80.5 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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.
Degrees are held by 21% of adults. 31% of residents are 65 or over, about level with Loir-et-Cher’s towns (30%) and above compared French towns (22%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for nearly one in ten residents.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loir-et-Cher 52.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Lamotte-Beuvron | Loir-et-Cher median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 31% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loir-et-Cher median and France median: the median of compared communes
Lamotte-Beuvron holds 2,000 jobs; 1,800 of its residents are in work, so 1.1 jobs each. Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, below both Loir-et-Cher’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Bus, tram or train carried 5.7% of working residents in Lamotte-Beuvron 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.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.78/m² a month, between Loir-et-Cher’s towns (€10.23/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). 134 sales of houses and apartments in Lamotte-Beuvron, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,651/m². A house rents for an estimated €8.65/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,656/m² | 133 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, 97 offenses were recorded in Lamotte-Beuvron. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 8.3 cases of violence against people and 14.2 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Police and gendarmerie recorded 97 offenses in the graded categories here in 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 vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (2.4% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Lamotte-Beuvron. Best known first.
3 notable people were born in Lamotte-Beuvron.
Octave Mannoni: B.Mannoni, Public domain · Jacques Dodeman: Norman Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
Lamotte-Beuvron is a commune of 4,504 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur de Sologne. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamotte-Beuvron | 4,504 | — | B+ | B+ | B− | A− |
| La Ferté-Saint-Aubin Loiret | 7,284 | 9 | A | B | B+ | B− |
| Salbris | 4,809 | 12 | C+ | A | B− | C− |
| Saint-Cyr-en-Val Loiret | 3,467 | 16 | A | C | A | A |
| Sandillon Loiret | 4,300 | 17 | — | C | — | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #11 of 22 in Loir-et-Cher. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 22 burglaries and 38 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 18% of compared French towns and #13 of 21 in Loir-et-Cher. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,651/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Lamotte-Beuvron grades B+ for cost of living.
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.