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A town of 1,138 in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Ouches has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 47% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €1,811/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais Agglomération. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 37% 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.
The one thing Ouches does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ouches 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 Ouches as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Muraille de porphyre dite Château Brûlé, in Villerest, 2.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ouches.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. 71 deaths in Ouches between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 113: 37% below. There is one general practitioner here.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Half of residents lived on more than €27,000 a year per consumption unit, higher than Loire’s towns (€25,635) and near compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 4.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Also worth knowing: jobs based in Ouches number 150, against 500 residents in work (0.3 per worker). 6.3% of the labour force are out of work.
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.
33 sales of houses and apartments in Ouches, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,811/m². House rents are put at about €8.14/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,811/m² | 33 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
27% of residents are 65 or over, above both Loire’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). The under-15s are 18% of the population here. At 48.2, the median resident of Ouches sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ouches | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 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.
The town’s pupils have a collège 3 mi away. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 4 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean de La FontaineNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 140 | 87%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, 6 offenses were recorded in Ouches. Violence against people ran at 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 8.7 (2023–2025 average). The graded crime recorded most here was burglary (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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 61.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, other places to visit and family days out in and near Ouches. Best known first.
Nothing in Ouches 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 Ouches yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Ouches has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 54% of compared French towns. 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 €1,811/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ouches grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ouches is a commune of 1,138 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.