Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,185 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Marlieux has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 8.3% unemployment. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% 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 Marlieux 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 Marlieux as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Motte féodale dite Poype de Villars, in Villars-les-Dombes, 4.6 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 Marlieux.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Marlieux sits below both Ain’s towns (82) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 90 residents of Marlieux died, against 104 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
That puts Marlieux above both Ain’s towns (20%) and compared French towns (17%). People 65 and over make up 16% of the town.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Marlieux | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
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
The median disposable income was €25,730 a year per consumption unit, below Ain’s towns (€27,670) and close to compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Marlieux. Best known first.
Nothing in Marlieux is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Marlieux.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlieux | 1,185 | — | — | B | — | A |
| Villars-les-Dombes | 5,163 | 4.6 | A− | C | C | B |
| Chalamont | 2,533 | 6.6 | A | B+ | B+ | C+ |
| Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne | 5,250 | 6.7 | B− | B− | C | C |
| Péronnas | 6,444 | 11 | A | C+ | B | A |
| Saint-André-de-Corcy | 3,370 | 11 | B | C− | B+ | B− |
| Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg | 6,160 | 11 | A | C+ | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Marlieux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.6 recorded violent incidents and 11.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Marlieux is a commune of 1,185 people in the Communauté de communes de la Dombes. 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.