Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,868 in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Maclas has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. At the median price of €2,499/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes du Pilat Rhodanien. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 41% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Maclas 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 Maclas as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Pierre, in Champagne, 8.3 mi away.
17% 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 Maclas.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Maclas can choose among 4 GPs. In Loire, women can expect to live 85.6 years and men 80.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 199 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 172, 14% 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.09/m² a month, near Loire’s towns (€10.17/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Behind the median of €2,499/m²: 42 houses and apartments sold in Maclas between July 2023 and June 2026. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €8.42/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,499/m² | 42 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
850 jobs are based in Maclas, for 800 working residents (1.1 per worker). 7.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Loire’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Households’ median disposable income: €26,780 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Half the people of Maclas are older than 46. 24% of residents are 65 or over, near Loire’s towns (25%) and higher than compared French towns (22%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 10%.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Maclas | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people averaged 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 10.6. Recorded offenses in Maclas came to 23 in 2025. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage 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, sexual violence, burglary, 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 (40.0% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Maclas. Best known first.
Nothing in Maclas 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 Maclas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maclas | 1,868 | — | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Pélussin | 3,727 | 3.9 | A+ | A− | A | A− |
| Chavanay | 2,884 | 4.3 | C+ | B− | C+ | C− |
| Saint-Maurice-l'Exil Isère | 6,889 | 5 | C | C+ | C+ | B |
| Le Péage-de-Roussillon Isère | 6,718 | 5.3 | C− | B− | D− | B− |
| Roussillon Isère | 8,595 | 6.1 | C− | B− | C− | B− |
| Salaise-sur-Sanne Isère | 4,606 | 6.2 | C− | C+ | D | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Maclas has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,499/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Maclas grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Maclas is a commune of 1,868 people in the Communauté de communes du Pilat Rhodanien. 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.