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The town has 1,607 residents and lies in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Work and incomes are strong: 0.7 jobs per working resident; 4.8% unemployment. Add cost of living to its strengths — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns (C): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on walkability as well: 90% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Chappes 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 Chappes 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.
Chappes has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Chappes as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne borne de justice aux armes des Comtes d'Auvergne, in Lussat, 1.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chappes.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
40 sales of houses and apartments in Chappes, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,437/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,437/m² | 40 |
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.
Average lifespans in Puy-de-Dôme: 85.6 years for women, 79.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. France’s death rates at each age would predict 108 deaths in Chappes from 2016 to 2025; there were 102, 6% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Chappes is Centre hospitalier de Riom, 5.4 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
Degrees are held by 36% of adults. At 44.1, the median resident of Chappes sits in the middle of the age range. 10% of residents are 15 to 24, about level with compared French towns (11%) and above Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (9.7%).
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Puy-de-Dôme 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Chappes | Puy-de-Dôme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Puy-de-Dôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
The median disposable income was €28,230 a year per consumption unit, above both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (€27,050) and compared French towns (€25,970). 3.2% of Chappes’ working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, vehicle theft led the graded crimes in Chappes. Violence against people averaged 2.8 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 14.8. The police record for Chappes lists 29 offenses in 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 and theft from vehicles, 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, 28.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Chappes 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 Chappes yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Chappes has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 10 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,437/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chappes grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Chappes is a commune of 1,607 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Riom Limagne et Volcans. 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.