Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,479 in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Caromb has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% 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 Caromb does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Caromb 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.
Caromb has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Caromb: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 2 inscrit (the second level).
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Noré Brunel, born in 1886, is the one person born in Caromb before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Explore the history →Other places to visit and heritage in and near Caromb. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Caromb.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Caromb sits below both Vaucluse’s towns (€11.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) on this measure. The median price, €2,997/m², comes from 132 sales of houses and apartments in Caromb from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,083/m² | 121 |
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.
That puts Caromb below both Vaucluse’s towns (91) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 308 residents of Caromb died, against 379 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 19% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
On this, Caromb is below both Vaucluse’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (11%). 27% of residents are 65 or over.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Caromb | Vaucluse median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vaucluse median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
In the comparison, Caromb comes above both Vaucluse’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Caromb: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 2 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
7.3% of Caromb’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 86% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 28 offenses in the graded categories in Caromb in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 31.0% of the index here.
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
The list names few of Caromb’s 3 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Caromb.
Noré Brunel: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Caromb has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2 recorded violent incidents and 8.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 15 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,997/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Caromb grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Caromb is a commune of 3,479 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
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.
