Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,806 in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
L'Horme grades C overall: better than 26% of compared French towns. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C−): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 12.8% unemployment. At the median price of €2,313/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Saint-Etienne Métropole. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 92% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
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 L'Horme 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 L'Horme 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, 1.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in L'Horme.
The median disposable income was €23,990 a year per consumption unit, below both Loire’s towns (€25,635) and compared French towns (€25,970). Public transport took 7.8% of L'Horme’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 2.4% of working residents in L'Horme didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
2025 saw 139 offenses recorded in L'Horme. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 7.8 violent offenses and 21.7 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of sexual violence go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 1.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 504 residents of L'Horme died, against 518 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 3% fewer. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as L'Horme’s; allowing for it, deaths were 17% below expected. 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. 5 GPs practise locally.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 1.2 mi to the nearest one. On school results, the town ranks #46 of 50 in Loire.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean RostandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 85 | 76%+5 pts |
| Lycée Sainte-Marie - la Grand'Grange PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 97 | 100%+1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel Sainte-Marie la Grand'Grange PrivateBest against expectations: 10 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 49 | 94%+10 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,313/m²: 149 houses and apartments sold in L'Horme between July 2023 and June 2026. Advertised rents are estimated at €10.31/m² a month, near Loire’s towns (€10.17/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The split here: €2,500/m² for houses, €1,946/m² for apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,500/m² | 83 |
| Apartments | €1,946/m² | 66 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
19% are under 15, above Loire’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Residents of L'Horme have a median age of 42.4. Aged 15 to 24: just over one in ten residents.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| L'Horme | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Museums, heritage and gardens in and near L'Horme. Best known first.
Nothing in L'Horme is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in L'Horme.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Horme | 4,806 | — | C | C+ | C− | B |
| La Grand-Croix | 4,947 | 1.4 | C+ | C+ | B− | C+ |
| Saint-Paul-en-Jarez | 4,699 | 1.5 | A− | C− | B+ | B |
| Saint-Chamond | 35,646 | 1.9 | C | B− | C | C+ |
| Lorette | 4,983 | 2.5 | C+ | C+ | B− | B− |
| Genilac | 3,839 | 3.6 | B | C | B | A− |
| Rive-de-Gier | 15,242 | 4.3 | C− | B | D | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety, #42 of 48 in Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 29 burglaries and 49 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 37% of compared French towns and #46 of 50 in Loire. The lycée stands out: 100% of 97 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Sainte-Marie - la Grand'Grange in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,313/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so L'Horme grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
L'Horme is a commune of 4,806 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) · 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.