Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
2,527 people call this town in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur home.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 36% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its weakest is cost of living (D−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 16.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. 17% of its homes are second homes. Homes go for a median €6,963/m².
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Opio has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Opio 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.
Opio has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Opio does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Opio as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame du Brusc, in Châteauneuf-Grasse, 0.7 mi away.
4.1% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Opio is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Opio.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Of the homes sold, 94% were houses. Sales in Opio from July 2023 to June 2026: 86 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €7,088/m² | 81 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Opio can choose among 2 GPs. In Alpes-Maritimes, women can expect to live 86.5 years and men 81.1 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 174 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 273: 36% below.
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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
By results, schools here place #10 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes. For collège, the closest is 0.9 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Le Pré des RouresNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 189 | 95%+2 pts |
| Lycée Simone VeilNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 329 | 99%+1 pt |
| Collège les Jasmins - Sainte MargueriteBest against expectations: 7 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 92 | 93%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group makes up nearly one in ten residents. People 65 and over make up a quarter of the town, about level with Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (24%) and above compared French towns (22%). At 49.9, the median resident of Opio sits in the middle of the age range.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Alpes-Maritimes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Opio | Alpes-Maritimes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 9.1% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 14% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 53% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Alpes-Maritimes median and France median: the median of compared communes
6.2% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (9.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 7.0% of commuters got to work without a car. 700 jobs are based in Opio, for 1,000 working residents (0.7 per worker).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Of the graded crimes in Opio, burglary came up most often (2025). Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.4 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 12.1. In all, 26 offenses reached the police record here in 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, armed robbery 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, 30.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Opio. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Opio yet.
Commune in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Opio is a commune of 2,527 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia Antipolis. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opio | 2,527 | — | — | D− | — | A+ |
| Châteauneuf-Grasse | 3,815 | 1.2 | A | D− | A | A+ |
| Le Rouret | 4,209 | 1.3 | — | D− | — | A− |
| Valbonne | 11,939 | 2.3 | A− | D− | B− | B+ |
| Le Bar-sur-Loup | 2,974 | 2.7 | — | D | — | C |
| Roquefort-les-Pins | 7,292 | 2.7 | A− | D− | A | B |
| Mouans-Sartoux | 11,015 | 3.2 | B+ | D− | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Opio has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 14 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 73% of compared French towns and #10 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes. The lycée stands out: 99% of 329 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Simone Veil in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Opio grades D− for cost of living.
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 November 4, 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.