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With 2,741 residents, it is a town in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 35% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Walkability is its weak spot — 60% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €2,313/m² costs 6.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Polliat has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Polliat does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Polliat 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.
Polliat has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Polliat as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Maison à pans de bois, in Bourg-en-Bresse, 5.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Polliat.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Polliat can choose among 5 GPs. In Ain, women can expect to live 85.9 years and men 82 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 177 residents of Polliat died, against 239 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% fewer.
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.
5.8% of people in the labour force have no job. The median disposable income was €27,640 a year per consumption unit, near Ain’s towns (€27,670) and higher than compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 2.5% of working residents in Polliat went to work by public transport.
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.
Behind the median of €2,313/m²: 81 houses and apartments sold in Polliat between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses made up 93% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,333/m² | 75 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
18% are under 15, about level with compared French towns (17%) and below Ain’s towns (20%). People 65 and over make up nearly a quarter of the town. Residents of Polliat have a median age of 45.7.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Polliat | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie figures for Polliat show 33 offenses in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 2.4 violent offenses and 12.7 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Burglary topped the graded crimes in Polliat (2025).
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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 28.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Polliat is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Polliat.
Hippolyte Piroux: Bressse, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Élisa Blanc: Unknown author Unknown author, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polliat | 2,741 | — | — | B | — | A+ |
| Attignat | 3,409 | 2.9 | — | B− | — | A |
| Viriat | 7,102 | 4.1 | B+ | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg | 6,160 | 4.5 | A | C+ | B | A |
| Bourg-en-Bresse | 42,372 | 5.6 | C | B− | D | C+ |
| Montrevel-en-Bresse | 2,743 | 5.8 | B− | C+ | B | B− |
| Péronnas | 6,444 | 5.9 | A | C+ | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Polliat has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 23 burglaries and 10 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,313/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Polliat grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Polliat is a commune of 2,741 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.
