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This town in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur has a population of 2,442.
Fewer journeys need a car: 72% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Where it falls short is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The local economy is weaker than most: 0.8 jobs per working resident; 12.0% unemployment. 14% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Beaumes-de-Venise 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 Beaumes-de-Venise 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.
Beaumes-de-Venise has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Beaumes-de-Venise does most differently from other towns.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Beaumes-de-Venise counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
The list names few of Beaumes-de-Venise’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Chapelle de Notre-Dame-d'Aubune: Photo: EmDee · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Beaumes-de-Venise.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,988/m², comes from 78 sales of houses and apartments in Beaumes-de-Venise from July 2023 to June 2026. Of the homes sold, 90% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,153/m² | 70 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 33% of adults. Children under 15 make up 15%, below both Vaucluse’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for nearly a tenth of the town.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Beaumes-de-Venise | Vaucluse median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vaucluse median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (58 places) counts its residents as Beaumes-de-Venise’s; allowing for it, deaths were 6% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 304 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 338, 11% more. In Vaucluse, women can expect to live 85.7 years and men 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. This Vaucluse town has 4 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Beaumes-de-Venise counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second. Among the classé monuments in the town is Chapelle de Notre-Dame-d'Aubune.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Unemployment stood at 12.0%, higher than both Vaucluse’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). 6.8% of Beaumes-de-Venise’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €25,210 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In all, 42 offenses reached the police record in Beaumes-de-Venise in 2025. Violence against people averaged 2.8 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 14.9. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (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 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, 25.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
One notable person was born in Beaumes-de-Venise.
Commune in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Beaumes-de-Venise is a commune of 2,442 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE). 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumes-de-Venise | 2,442 | — | — | C | — | C |
| Aubignan | 5,981 | 1.5 | B+ | C | A | B+ |
| Sarrians | 5,792 | 3.8 | B− | C | A− | B− |
| Caromb | 3,479 | 4 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Carpentras | 31,619 | 4.5 | D | C+ | C− | C |
| Monteux | 13,301 | 6.2 | D | C− | C+ | C |
| Jonquières | 5,201 | 6.2 | C | C− | A | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Beaumes-de-Venise has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 22 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,988/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Beaumes-de-Venise grades C for cost of living.
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.