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A town of 7,233 in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Mably grades B+ overall: better than 73% of compared French towns, and #27 of 48 in Loire. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C+): 1.4 jobs per working resident; 11.7% unemployment. At the median price of €1,905/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais Agglomération. Its strongest is schools (A−): bac results at the expected rate; brevet results 3.2 points above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Mably does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mably 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Mably as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Saint-Vincent, in Saint-Vincent-de-Boisset, 5 mi away.
3.1% 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 Mably.
Degrees are held by nearly a fifth of adults, below Loire’s towns (28%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. The share aged 15 to 24 is 8.4%. Children under 15 make up 16% of residents.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
| Mably | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the 3 vocational lycées within 5 km, 86% of 224 candidates passed the bac pro. 90.6% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Mably, close to Loire’s towns (89.9%) and above compared French towns (87.5%). Collège pupils travel 0.8 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Louis AragonNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 81 | 90%+9 pts |
| Lycée Albert ThomasNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 195 | 95%−1 pt |
| Collège Albert ThomasBest against expectations: 20 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 69 | 97%+20 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.
The median price, €1,905/m², comes from 193 sales of houses and apartments in Mably from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses accounted for 95% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,908/m² | 184 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 5.7 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 17.5. Over 2025, Mably logged 149 recorded offenses. This Loire town has 3,350 jobs for 2,450 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. Of the graded crimes in the town, 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 · When sexual violence 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 (1.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
3 GPs practise in Mably. Life expectancy in Loire: 85.6 years for women and 80.8 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 976 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 922, 5% fewer.
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.
The median disposable income was €24,500 a year per consumption unit, below Loire’s towns (€25,635) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. 9.4% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and museums in and near Mably. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Joseph-Déchelette4.1 km south, in RoanneChâteauChâteauChâteau de Beaulieu4.4 km southwest, in RiorgesArt galleryArt galleryLe Bateau Libre3.7 km south, in RoannePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Mably 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 Mably 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mably | 7,233 | — | B+ | A− | C+ | B− |
| Riorges | 11,139 | 2.1 | A− | B+ | B− | B+ |
| Roanne | 35,409 | 2.2 | B+ | A | D | B+ |
| Le Coteau | 6,845 | 3.4 | A | A− | B− | B+ |
| Villerest | 5,172 | 4.9 | A+ | B+ | A | A |
| Commelle-Vernay | 3,050 | 5 | A+ | A− | A+ | A− |
| Pouilly-sous-Charlieu | 2,588 | 5.3 | — | A | — | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #31 of 48 in Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 39 burglaries and 53 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 79% of compared French towns and #13 of 50 in Loire. 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 €1,905/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Mably grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Mably is a commune of 7,233 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais Agglomération. 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.