Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,104 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Douvres has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 0% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is health (B): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 17% 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.
Each subject compares Douvres 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 Douvres as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye d'Ambronay, in Ambronay, 1.4 mi away.
12% 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 Douvres.
That puts Douvres above both Ain’s towns (€27,670) and compared French towns (€25,970). Douvres has 50 jobs for 500 working residents, 0.1 per worker. At the census, 9.2% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On this, Douvres is above both Ain’s towns (32%) and compared French towns (30%). 18% of residents are 65 or over.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Douvres | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 56 residents of Douvres died, against 68 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% fewer. 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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
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.
In the comparison, Douvres comes below both Ain’s towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-ExupéryNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 167 | 77%−8 pts |
| Lycée de la Plaine de l'AinNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 481 | 97%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Alexandre BérardBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 166 | 90%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Too few homes sold here for a reliable median price, so the Cost Grade uses rent alone.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Douvres. Best known first.
MuseumChâteau des Allymes3.3 km southeast, in Ambérieu-en-Bugey
MuseumMusée du cheminot3.6 km southwest, in Ambérieu-en-BugeyAttractionAttractionAbbaye Notre-Dame d'Ambronay2.2 km northwest, in AmbronayChâteauChâteauChâteau de Varey4.9 km northeast, in Saint-Jean-le-VieuxChâteauChâteauChâteau de Luisandre3.7 km east, in Saint-Rambert-en-BugeyChâteauChâteauChâteau de Saint-Germain4.5 km south, in Ambérieu-en-BugeyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Douvres is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Douvres.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douvres | 1,104 | — | — | B | — | B |
| Ambronay | 2,841 | 1.5 | A− | B+ | B− | B+ |
| Ambérieu-en-Bugey | 15,934 | 2.3 | C− | C+ | C− | C |
| Pont-d'Ain | 2,843 | 4.6 | D | B+ | D | D |
| Lagnieu | 7,411 | 6.4 | B+ | B− | B | C+ |
| Villieu-Loyes-Mollon | 3,849 | 8.2 | B | C | C+ | B |
| Chalamont | 2,533 | 9.7 | A | B+ | B+ | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Douvres has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.9 recorded violent incidents and 9.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 40% of compared French towns. 97% of 481 candidates passed the bac at Lycée de la Plaine de l'Ain in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Douvres is a commune of 1,104 people in the Communauté de communes de la Plaine de l'Ain. 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) · 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.