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2,242 people live in this town in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Households here earn well: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 4.5% unemployment. Cost of living is a strength too — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Most journeys need a car: 16% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% 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 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Orléat 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 one thing Orléat does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Orléat 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.
Orléat has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Orléat has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1976.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Orléat.
At the census, 3.3% of commuters got to work without a car. 4.5% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (9.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Median disposable income comes to €29,120 a year per consumption unit.
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.
The median price, €2,131/m², comes from 53 sales of houses and apartments in Orléat from July 2023 to June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €8.62/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,131/m² | 53 |
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.
2 GPs practise in Orléat. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 80 per 100 expected, close to Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (83) and below compared French towns (88). 144 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 179: 20% below. Life expectancy at birth in Puy-de-Dôme is 85.6 years for women and 79.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
10% of homes were built before 1919. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Under-15s account for 18% of the population. 22% of residents are 65 or over, below Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (25%) and close to compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up 38% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Puy-de-Dôme 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Orléat | Puy-de-Dôme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Puy-de-Dôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes in Orléat. All told, Orléat had 19 recorded offenses in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.1 cases of violence against people and 9.9 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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, other physical violence, sexual violence, 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 (29.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Orléat. Best known first.
Orléat has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Bonnet: Photo: Rilba · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Orléat yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Orléat has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 8 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,131/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Orléat grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Orléat is a commune of 2,242 people in the Communauté de communes Entre Dore et Allier. 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.