Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,530 people call this town in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Homes are affordable (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest is walkability (C−): 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Saint-André-le-Puy 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.
Each subject compares Saint-André-le-Puy 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.
Saint-André-le-Puy has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-André-le-Puy as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de la Pierre, in Saint-Paul-d'Uzore, 9.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-André-le-Puy.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Loire: 85.6 years for women and 80.8 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 82 residents of Saint-André-le-Puy died, against 109 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 25% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Saint-André-le-Puy is Ch du Forez site de Montbrison, 10.6 mi away. The town has 3 family doctors.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A+.
At the census, 5.9% of commuters got to work without a car. 250 jobs are based in Saint-André-le-Puy, for 700 working residents (0.3 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €27,180 a year per consumption unit, above Loire’s towns (€25,635) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike.
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.
51 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-André-le-Puy, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,480/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,480/m² | 51 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Just over a fifth of residents have reached 65. People aged 15 to 24 make up 7.5% of the town, below both Loire’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Saint-André-le-Puy has a median age of 42.1 years.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-André-le-Puy | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
The 2025 count: 7 offenses in Saint-André-le-Puy. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 5 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 10.5. Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (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, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 30.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest collège is 3.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée Saint-Pierre PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 48 | 100%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Saint-André-le-Puy. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Montrond2.5 km west, in Montrond-les-BainsChâteauChâteauChâteau de Bellegarde-en-Forez3.3 km east, in Bellegarde-en-ForezAttractionAttractionLa ferme des délices foréziens1.6 km northeast, in Saint-Cyr-les-VignesChâteauChâteauChâteau de Sourcieux4.6 km west, in Chalain-le-ComtalPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Saint-André-le-Puy 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 Saint-André-le-Puy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-André-le-Puy | 1,530 | — | — | B+ | — | A− |
| Montrond-les-Bains | 5,652 | 1.2 | A | B− | B+ | A− |
| Saint-Galmier | 5,829 | 4.6 | A− | C+ | A | C− |
| Veauche | 8,975 | 5.9 | A | C+ | A− | A |
| Chazelles-sur-Lyon | 5,543 | 6.3 | A+ | A− | A | B+ |
| Feurs | 8,367 | 6.7 | A− | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Andrézieux-Bouthéon | 10,425 | 8.1 | B− | C | C | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-André-le-Puy 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 €2,480/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-André-le-Puy grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-André-le-Puy is a commune of 1,530 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.