Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,257 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Malafretaz has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−): 83% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 31% 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 Malafretaz 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Malafretaz as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ferme de Sougey, in Montrevel-en-Bresse, 2 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Malafretaz.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For Malafretaz, that is below both Ain’s towns (82) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 81 residents of Malafretaz died, against 117 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 31% 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
Malafretaz sits below both Ain’s towns (8.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%) on this measure. Malafretaz has 200 jobs for 600 working residents, 0.3 per worker. At the census, 5.9% 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Malafretaz below both Ain’s towns (€12.27/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On this, Malafretaz is below Ain’s towns (91.0%) and close to compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de l'HuppeNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 182 | 88%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Malafretaz comes below both Ain’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Children are 19% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Malafretaz | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 36% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Museums and heritage in and near Malafretaz. Best known first.
Nothing in Malafretaz is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Malafretaz.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malafretaz | 1,257 | — | — | B+ | — | A |
| Montrevel-en-Bresse | 2,743 | 1.1 | B− | C+ | B | B− |
| Attignat | 3,409 | 3.1 | — | B− | — | A |
| Polliat | 2,741 | 5.4 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Viriat | 7,102 | 6.8 | B+ | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| Saint-Étienne-du-Bois | 2,584 | 7.6 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Bâgé-Dommartin | 4,050 | 8.8 | A | B+ | A | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Malafretaz has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.3 recorded violent incidents and 8.1 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 36% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Malafretaz is a commune of 1,257 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) · 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.