Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,328 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Ceyzériat grades A+ overall: better than 95% of compared French towns, and #6 of 53 in Ain. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 0.9 jobs per working resident; 5.9% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Ceyzériat does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ceyzériat 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 Ceyzériat as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Julien-sur-Roche (restes), in Ramasse, 1.9 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ceyzériat.
Police and gendarmerie recorded 46 offenses in the graded categories in Ceyzériat in 2025. Violence against people ran at 2.5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 12.6 (2023–2025 average). For 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, 17.9% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
In the comparison, Ceyzériat comes above both Ain’s towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Lucie AubracNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 140 | 93%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 376 residents of Ceyzériat died, against 367 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 3% more. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Ceyzériat’s; allowing for it, deaths were 18% below expected. The adjustment lowers most towns’ figures, so the comparison is what counts: the median of compared French towns is 12% below expected. 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
For Ceyzériat, that is below both Ain’s towns (8.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). 8.9% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
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.
Ceyzériat sits below both Ain’s towns (€12.27/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) on this measure. The median price, €2,500/m², comes from 96 sales of houses and apartments in Ceyzériat from July 2023 to June 2026. A home here costs 6.6 years of the median income in Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,505/m² | 85 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
That puts Ceyzériat above both Ain’s towns (32%) and compared French towns (30%). Over-65s are 23% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ceyzériat | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Ceyzériat. Best known first.
Nothing in Ceyzériat is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Ceyzériat.
Émile Bravet: Assemblée Nationale, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceyzériat | 3,328 | — | A+ | C+ | A− | B+ |
| Bourg-en-Bresse | 42,372 | 4.7 | C | B− | D | C+ |
| Péronnas | 6,444 | 5.3 | A | C+ | B | A |
| Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg | 6,160 | 6.1 | A | C+ | B | A |
| Viriat | 7,102 | 6.6 | B+ | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| Saint-Étienne-du-Bois | 2,584 | 7.2 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Pont-d'Ain | 2,843 | 9 | D | B+ | D | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety, #11 of 53 in Ain. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 20 burglaries and 20 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 76% of compared French towns and #14 of 54 in Ain. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ceyzériat grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ceyzériat is a commune of 3,328 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse. 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.
