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A town of 1,425 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Tossiat has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its strongest is jobs & income (A+): 0.9 jobs per working resident; 5.4% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Tossiat 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 Tossiat as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Julien-sur-Roche (restes), in Ramasse, 4.8 mi away.
15% 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 Tossiat.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Tossiat records 80 deaths per 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 111 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 89, 20% fewer. In Ain, women can expect to live 85.9 years and men 82 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Also worth knowing: 4 GPs practise here.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for nearly a tenth of the town. Children under 15 make up 18%, about level with compared French towns (17%) and below Ain’s towns (20%). At 44.6, the median resident of Tossiat sits in the middle of the age range.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Tossiat | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 7.0% of commuters at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €29,210 a year per consumption unit, above Ain’s towns (€27,670) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. At the census, 3.8% of working residents in Tossiat didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
35 sales of houses and apartments in Tossiat, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,367/m². A home here costs 6.3 years of the median income in Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse. Of the homes sold, 86% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,465/m² | 30 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Tossiat. Best known first.
Nothing in Tossiat 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 Tossiat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tossiat | 1,425 | — | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Ceyzériat | 3,328 | 3 | A+ | C+ | A− | B+ |
| Péronnas | 6,444 | 5.7 | A | C+ | B | A |
| Bourg-en-Bresse | 42,372 | 5.8 | C | B− | D | C+ |
| Pont-d'Ain | 2,843 | 6.2 | D | B+ | D | D |
| Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg | 6,160 | 6.9 | A | C+ | B | A |
| Viriat | 7,102 | 8.4 | B+ | C+ | C+ | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Tossiat has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.9 recorded violent incidents and 14.3 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 8 burglaries and 5 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 €2,367/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Tossiat grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Tossiat is a commune of 1,425 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.