Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,525 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Bellignat grades A− overall: better than 83% of compared French towns, and #17 of 53 in Ain. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C): 1.6 jobs per working resident; 14.1% unemployment. At the median price of €1,667/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Haut - Bugey Agglomération. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 99% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Bellignat does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bellignat 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bellignat as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Usine électrique la Grande Vapeur, actuellement musée du Peigne, in Oyonnax, 1.4 mi away.
1.3% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bellignat.
For Bellignat, that is above both Ain’s towns (8.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The median disposable income is €23,370 a year per consumption unit.
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.
Bellignat sits below both Ain’s towns (82) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 230 residents of Bellignat died, against 269 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% 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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Bellignat below both Ain’s towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège AmpèreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 146 | 68%−6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Arbez-CarmeNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 182 | 97%±0 pts |
| Collège Louis LumièreBest against expectations: 13 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 130 | 89%+13 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 60 offenses in the graded categories in Bellignat in 2025. For sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, 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, 14.9% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. With 2,150 jobs for 1,300 working residents, Bellignat draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
On this, Bellignat is below both Ain’s towns (€12.27/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,667/m², comes from 99 sales of houses and apartments in Bellignat from July 2023 to June 2026. In Bellignat, houses go for €2,135/m² and apartments for €1,462/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,135/m² | 31 |
| Apartments | €1,462/m² | 68 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Bellignat comes above both Ain’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 17% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Bellignat | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 14% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 31% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Bellignat 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 Bellignat yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellignat | 3,525 | — | A− | B | B | A− |
| Oyonnax | 22,480 | 1 | B | B− | B− | C+ |
| Arbent | 3,555 | 3.3 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Montréal-la-Cluse | 3,568 | 5.4 | B | B− | A− | B− |
| Nantua | 3,416 | 6.8 | C+ | A− | C | B− |
| Valserhône | 16,712 | 13 | D | C− | C− | C |
| Péron | 2,916 | 14 | A | C− | A | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #24 of 53 in Ain.
They grade B+, better than 66% of compared French towns and #21 of 54 in Ain. 97% of 182 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Arbez-Carme in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,667/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Bellignat grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bellignat is a commune of 3,525 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Haut - Bugey Agglomération. 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.