Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,022 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Sauverny 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 12% 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 53% 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.
The 2 things Sauverny does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Sauverny 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 Sauverny as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, in Ferney-Voltaire, 3.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sauverny.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Sauverny is Hopital Prive Pays de Savoie, 10.2 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 76 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 36, 53% fewer. At birth, a girl in Ain can expect 85.9 years and a boy 82 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Sauverny, 99.4% passed the bac, higher than both Ain’s towns (94.2%) and compared French towns (92.9%). The closest collège is 2.7 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges CharpakNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 165 | 91%+1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 114 | 100%±0 pts |
| Collège Jeanne d'Arc PrivateBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 196 | 100%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 10.9%, above both Ain’s towns (8.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). For its 450 residents in work, Sauverny has 50 jobs: 0.1 each. 3.2% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
Renting a house costs an estimated €22.47/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 23 homes in Sauverny. Of the homes sold, 65% were houses.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The under-15s are 18% of the population here. 8.6% of residents are 15 to 24, below both Ain’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Sauverny has a median age of 46.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Sauverny | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.2% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 50% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Sauverny. Best known first.
Nothing in Sauverny is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Sauverny yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauverny | 1,022 | — | — | C | — | A+ |
| Cessy | 5,832 | 2 | A+ | C− | A | A+ |
| Ségny | 2,941 | 2.1 | — | C− | — | A+ |
| Ornex | 5,082 | 2.6 | B− | D | B− | A+ |
| Gex | 13,627 | 2.9 | A− | C− | B− | A |
| Divonne-les-Bains | 10,464 | 3.4 | C+ | D− | B− | A+ |
| Ferney-Voltaire | 12,094 | 3.9 | B− | D | C | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Sauverny has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.9 recorded violent incidents and 15.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A−, better than 82% of compared French towns. 100% of 114 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Jeanne d'Arc 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
Sauverny is a commune of 1,022 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Gex. 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.