Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,941 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Ségny has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 48% 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 Ségny does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ségny 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.
Ségny has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ségny as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Voltaire, in Ferney-Voltaire, 3.1 mi away.
2.5% 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 Ségny.
That puts Ségny above both Ain’s towns (20%) and compared French towns (17%). Those 65 and older account for 11% of residents.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ségny | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 35% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 11% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.8% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 18% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 50% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Ségny is below both Ain’s towns (82) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 63 residents of Ségny died, against 122 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 48% 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In the comparison, Ségny comes above both Ain’s towns (€12.27/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €4,838/m², comes from 98 sales of houses and apartments in Ségny from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses in Ségny sell for €5,247/m² and apartments for €4,216/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €5,247/m² | 46 |
| Apartments | €4,216/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Ségny, that is above both Ain’s towns (€27,670) and compared French towns (€25,970). Ségny has 500 jobs for 1,450 working residents, 0.3 per worker. 19.4% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
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.
Ségny sits above both Ain’s towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%) on this measure.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 196 | 100%+1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 114 | 100%±0 pts |
| Collège le JoranBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 173 | 95%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 29 offenses in the graded categories in Ségny in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 40.0% of the index here.
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
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Ségny. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Voltaire4.9 km southeast, in Ferney-VoltaireChâteauChâteauChâteau de Grilly5 km northeast, in GrillyChâteauChâteauChâteau de Grilly4.7 km northeast, in GrillyChâteauChâteauChâteau de Prévessin4.7 km south, in Prévessin-MoënsMuseumMuseumMusée Départemental des Sapeurs Pompiers4.3 km north, in GexAttractionAttractionCERN Control Centre4.8 km south, in Prévessin-MoënsPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Ségny 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 Ségny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ségny | 2,941 | — | — | C− | — | A+ |
| Cessy | 5,832 | 1.6 | A+ | C− | A | A+ |
| Ornex | 5,082 | 1.6 | B− | D | B− | A+ |
| Gex | 13,627 | 2.7 | A− | C− | B− | A |
| Prévessin-Moëns | 9,153 | 2.7 | B | D | B− | A+ |
| Ferney-Voltaire | 12,094 | 3.3 | B− | D | C | A+ |
| Saint-Genis-Pouilly | 14,432 | 3.9 | A | C− | B | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ségny has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.5 recorded violent incidents and 7.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 43% of compared French towns and #32 of 54 in Ain. 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.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €4,838/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ségny grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ségny is a commune of 2,941 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) · 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.