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1,410 residents make their home in this town in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It skews older: 35% of residents are 65 or over.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns (A+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Pupils here do better than most (A): brevet results 3 points above the expected rate. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for health, B for jobs & income and B− for walkability. Holiday and other second homes account for a fifth of homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Belmont-de-la-Loire 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 Belmont-de-la-Loire 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.
Belmont-de-la-Loire has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Belmont-de-la-Loire does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Belmont-de-la-Loire as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Paul, in Châteauneuf, 5.4 mi away.
30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Belmont-de-la-Loire 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 Belmont-de-la-Loire.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,255/m², lower than both Loire’s towns (€2,075/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). House rents are put at about €7.86/m² a month. Sales in Belmont-de-la-Loire from July 2023 to June 2026: 33 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,288/m² | 32 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest collège is 2.6 mi away. The closest lycée for the general bac is 8.3 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MermozNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 57 | 96%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 35% of the town. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 6.6% of residents, lower than both Loire’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Graduates make up 18% of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Belmont-de-la-Loire | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.6% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
339 deaths in Belmont-de-la-Loire between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 268: 27% above. The nearest emergency department to Belmont-de-la-Loire is Centre hospitalier de Roanne, 15.4 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Loire is 85.6 years for women and 80.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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.
Belmont-de-la-Loire holds 600 jobs; 550 of its residents are in work, so 1.1 jobs each. Half of residents lived on more than €24,880 a year per consumption unit, close to Loire’s towns (€25,635) and below compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 6.5% of working residents in Belmont-de-la-Loire didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums and heritage in and near Belmont-de-la-Loire. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Belmont-de-la-Loire yet.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Belmont-de-la-Loire is a commune of 1,410 people in the Communauté de communes Charlieu-Belmont. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont-de-la-Loire | 1,410 | — | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Chauffailles Saône-et-Loire | 3,638 | 2.7 | A | A | C+ | B+ |
| Cours Rhône | 4,306 | 4.7 | A− | A+ | B− | C+ |
| Charlieu | 3,766 | 8.4 | A− | A | C− | B+ |
| Thizy-les-Bourgs Rhône | 5,771 | 9 | A− | A+ | C+ | B |
| Pouilly-sous-Charlieu | 2,588 | 11 | — | A | — | A+ |
| Amplepuis Rhône | 4,876 | 13 | A− | A | C | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Belmont-de-la-Loire has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.1 recorded violent incidents and 5.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 92% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Belmont-de-la-Loire grades A+ 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 9, 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.