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With 1,040 residents, it is a town in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Add schools to its strengths — brevet results at the expected rate. Walkability is its weak spot — 52% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes lag: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 7.2% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Nervieux 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.
The 2 things Nervieux does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Nervieux 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.
Nervieux has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Nervieux has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1958.
23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Nervieux.
3.4% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. Unemployment stood at 7.2%, below both Loire’s towns (8.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.52/m² a month, about level with Loire’s towns (€10.17/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Nervieux recorded 33 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses made up 97% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,615/m² | 32 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; 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. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Nervieux come to 95 per 100 predicted. 70 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 73: 5% below. The nearest emergency department to Nervieux is Ch du Forez site de Montbrison, 14.6 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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For collège, the closest is 2.1 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Michel de MontaigneNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 105 | 90%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 17th century. Nervieux has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Degrees are held by a quarter of adults, lower than both Loire’s towns (28%) and compared French towns (30%). Under 15: 19% of residents. People 65 and over make up 21% of the town.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Nervieux | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Among the graded crimes in Nervieux, the most frequent was sexual violence (2025). Violence against people averaged 5 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 8.8.
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 · For family violence, other physical violence, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 76.7% of the index here.
The list names few of Nervieux’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Nervieux 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nervieux | 1,040 | — | — | B+ | — | C |
| Balbigny | 2,911 | 2 | B | B | A | C+ |
| Feurs | 8,367 | 5.9 | A− | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Boën-sur-Lignon | 3,001 | 8.2 | B | A+ | C− | C− |
| Panissières | 2,911 | 9.2 | — | A+ | — | B+ |
| Montrond-les-Bains | 5,652 | 12 | A | B− | B+ | A− |
| Commelle-Vernay | 3,050 | 14 | A+ | A− | A+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Nervieux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B+, better than 67% 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 Nervieux grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Nervieux is a commune of 1,040 people in the Communauté de communes de Forez-Est. 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 November 4, 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.