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Home to 2,743 people, this town lies in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Nothing here grades far from typical. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: 71% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 11% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. School results trail most towns: brevet results 3 points below the expected rate. Homes sell for a median €2,126/m², so 70 m² costs 5.6 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse. Overall, that makes a B−, better than 53% of compared French towns. The ranking puts it #40 of 53 in Ain. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for safety, B− for health and B for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Montrevel-en-Bresse 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 one thing Montrevel-en-Bresse does most differently from other towns.
Montrevel-en-Bresse has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Wikidata records 3 people born in Montrevel-en-Bresse before 1900, the earliest Pierre de La Baume, in 1477.
Montrevel-en-Bresse has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Manoir de la Charme: Photo: Junkey83 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ferme de Sougey: Photo: Demaiz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montrevel-en-Bresse.
31% of residents are 65 or over, above both Ain’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up nearly a quarter of adults. Line up the people of Montrevel-en-Bresse by age and the one in the middle is 49.6.
54% women, 46% men
About 84 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Montrevel-en-Bresse | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 31% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
1,350 jobs are based in Montrevel-en-Bresse, for 1,100 working residents (1.2 per worker). Public transport took 2.1% of the town’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 2.7% of working residents in Montrevel-en-Bresse didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 10.3 mi off. On results, collèges and lycées here come #44 of 54 in Ain.
| 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
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Montrevel-en-Bresse is Ferme de Sougey. The pre-1919 share of homes is 6.5%.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,126/m²: 72 houses and apartments sold in Montrevel-en-Bresse between July 2023 and June 2026. A house in Montrevel-en-Bresse goes for €2,158/m², an apartment for €2,108/m². House rents are put at about €7.09/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,158/m² | 39 |
| Apartments | €2,108/m² | 33 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Montrevel-en-Bresse were criminal damage than anything else (2025). All told, Montrevel-en-Bresse had 75 recorded offenses in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 6.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 13.5.
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 · When armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (15.4% of the index here). With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Montrevel-en-Bresse has 4 family doctors. Its care home for older people (166 places) counts its residents as Montrevel-en-Bresse’s; allowing for it, deaths were 14% below expected. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Montrevel-en-Bresse is Centre hospitalier de Bourg En Bresse Fleyriat, 8.7 mi away. In Ain, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.9 years for women and 82 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
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 adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Museums and heritage in and near Montrevel-en-Bresse. Best known first.
3 notable people were born in Montrevel-en-Bresse.
Pierre de La Baume: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Montrevel-en-Bresse is a commune of 2,743 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montrevel-en-Bresse | 2,743 | — | B− | C+ | B | B− |
| Attignat | 3,409 | 3.9 | — | B− | — | A |
| Polliat | 2,741 | 5.8 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Viriat | 7,102 | 7.7 | B+ | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| Bâgé-Dommartin | 4,050 | 7.8 | A | B+ | A | A |
| Saint-Étienne-du-Bois | 2,584 | 8.7 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg | 6,160 | 9.7 | A | C+ | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #27 of 53 in Ain. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 15 burglaries and 26 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 36% of compared French towns and #44 of 54 in Ain. 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 €2,126/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.44/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Montrevel-en-Bresse grades C+ for cost of living.
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 November 9, 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.
