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A town of 2,656 in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,655/m², a 70 m² home costs 7.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Aygues-Ouvèze en Provence (CCAOP). The weak point is schools (C−) — brevet results 5 points below the expected rate. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C+): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 10.4% unemployment.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes 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.
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Marius André, born in 1868, is the one person born in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes, 86.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, higher than Vaucluse’s towns (83.5%) yet lower than compared French towns (87.5%). General-bac pupils go 7.6 mi to the nearest lycée. Its schools’ results rank #26 of 36 in Vaucluse.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Victor SchoelcherNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 140 | 86%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,655/m², comes from 106 sales of houses and apartments in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes from July 2023 to June 2026. A house in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes goes for €2,504/m², an apartment for €2,722/m². Of the homes sold, 70% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,504/m² | 74 |
| Apartments | €2,722/m² | 32 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
At the census, 4.8% of working residents in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes didn’t travel to work at all. On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how nearly one in ten commuters travelled at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €25,230 a year per consumption unit, about level with both Vaucluse’s towns (€25,140) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Vaucluse, women can expect to live 85.7 years and men 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 367 residents of Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes died, against 329 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% more. Its care home for older people (66 places) counts its residents as Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes’; allowing for it, deaths were 10% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes is Centre hospitalier Louis Giorgi D Orange, 7.3 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, higher than Vaucluse’s towns (9.7%) and near compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 18% of residents. The middle age in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes is 45.1.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes | Vaucluse median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vaucluse median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes was criminal damage (2025). The town’s tally for 2025: 29 recorded offenses. Violence against people averaged 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 12.2.
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, sexual violence, armed robbery, 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, 28.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes.
Maurice Trintignant: El Gráfico, Public domain · Marius André: Jfblanc, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes | 2,656 | — | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Sérignan-du-Comtat | 2,939 | 4.3 | B | C+ | A | C |
| Camaret-sur-Aigues | 4,533 | 5.5 | C | C+ | A | C− |
| Bollène | 14,024 | 7.5 | D | C+ | C− | B− |
| Piolenc | 5,718 | 7.5 | C | B− | B+ | C+ |
| Mornas | 2,569 | 7.8 | D− | C+ | D− | B− |
| Mondragon | 3,833 | 8.3 | D | C+ | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 19% of compared French towns and #26 of 36 in Vaucluse. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,655/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes is a commune of 2,656 people in the Communauté de communes Aygues-Ouvèze en Provence (CCAOP). 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.