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A town of 1,731 in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Cellieu has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−): 32% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is jobs & income (A−): 0.2 jobs per working resident; 3.4% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Cellieu does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cellieu 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 no building in Cellieu as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is maison des Chanoines, in Saint-Chamond, 3.2 mi away.
13% 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 Cellieu.
The census found 5.7% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Half of residents lived on more than €29,540 a year per consumption unit, higher than both Loire’s towns (€25,635) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Loire, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.6 years for women and 80.8 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. From 2016 to 2025, 99 residents of Cellieu died, against 128 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 23% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Cellieu is Hopital du Gier Mco, 3.2 mi away.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses accounted for 96% of sales, apartments for the rest. Renting a house costs an estimated €10.55/m² a month. Sales in Cellieu from July 2023 to June 2026: 28 houses and apartments.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 3.2 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Charles ExbrayatNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 149 | 87%−3 pts |
| Collège François TruffautBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 154 | 93%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Children under 15 make up 19%, above Loire’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Those 65 and older account for just over a fifth of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Cellieu | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.2% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 40% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
All told, Cellieu had 21 recorded offenses in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.4 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 12.4. More of the graded crimes here were burglary than anything else (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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, 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 (32.9% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, gardens and museums in and near Cellieu. Best known first.
Nothing in Cellieu is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cellieu 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cellieu | 1,731 | — | — | B+ | — | A− |
| La Grand-Croix | 4,947 | 1.5 | C+ | C+ | B− | C+ |
| L'Horme | 4,806 | 2 | C | C+ | C− | B |
| Lorette | 4,983 | 2.1 | C+ | C+ | B− | B− |
| Genilac | 3,839 | 2.2 | B | C | B | A− |
| Saint-Paul-en-Jarez | 4,699 | 2.7 | A− | C− | B+ | B |
| Saint-Martin-la-Plaine | 3,764 | 3.4 | A | C | A− | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cellieu has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 16 burglaries and 5 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 64% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Cellieu is a commune of 1,731 people in the Saint-Etienne Métropole. 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) · 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.