Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,182 in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Versonnex has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.6 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 44% 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 3 things Versonnex does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Versonnex 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 Versonnex 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 mi away.
3.1% 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 Versonnex.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Versonnex is below both Ain’s towns (82) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 65 residents of Versonnex died, against 117 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 44% 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
In the comparison, Versonnex comes above both Ain’s towns (20%) and compared French towns (17%). Over-65s are 14% of the population.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Versonnex | Ain median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 44% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ain median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For Versonnex, that is above both Ain’s towns (€2,641/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,965/m² | 45 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Versonnex sits above both Ain’s towns (€27,670) and compared French towns (€25,970) on this measure. Versonnex has 150 jobs for 1,050 working residents, 0.2 per worker. 7.7% of the labour force are out of work.
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.
That puts Versonnex above both Ain’s towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| 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 Georges CharpakBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 165 | 91%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 18 offenses in the graded categories in Versonnex in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary 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, 49.1% 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 Versonnex. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Voltaire4.8 km south, in Ferney-VoltaireChâteauChâteauChâteau de Grilly3.6 km north, in GrillyChâteauChâteauChâteau de Grilly3.3 km north, in GrillyMuseumMuseumMusée Départemental des Sapeurs Pompiers4.6 km northwest, in GexArt galleryArt galleryChez Brice3.2 km south, in OrnexAttractionAttractionMenhir du Mont Mourex4.5 km north, in GrillyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Versonnex 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 Versonnex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Versonnex | 2,182 | — | — | D | — | A+ |
| Ségny | 2,941 | 1.3 | — | C− | — | A+ |
| Ornex | 5,082 | 1.7 | B− | D | B− | A+ |
| Cessy | 5,832 | 1.8 | A+ | C− | A | A+ |
| Gex | 13,627 | 2.9 | A− | C− | B− | A |
| Ferney-Voltaire | 12,094 | 3.1 | B− | D | C | A+ |
| Prévessin-Moëns | 9,153 | 3.2 | B | D | B− | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Versonnex has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3 recorded violent incidents and 9.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 43% 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.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €22.43/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Versonnex grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Versonnex is a commune of 2,182 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.