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With 2,398 residents, it is a town in Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Residents are healthier than most: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 36% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,096/m² takes 5.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays Riolais. Schools are its weak spot (C−): brevet results 7 points below the expected rate.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Rioz has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Rioz does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Rioz 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.
Rioz has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Rioz as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Lazare, in Bonnay, 6.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Rioz.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Haute-Saône, women can expect to live 84.7 years and men 78.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 126 deaths in Rioz between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 155: 19% below. The nearest emergency department to Rioz is Centre hospitalier Universitaire Jean Minjoz Besancon, 14.7 mi away. This Haute-Saône town has 3 family doctors.
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.
Of the graded crimes in Rioz, criminal damage came up most often (2025). 2025 saw 40 offenses recorded locally. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3.2 violent offenses and 10.6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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 · When other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (17.3% of the index here). With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The brevet pass rate near Rioz is 87.0%, higher than Haute-Saône’s towns (82.8%) and near compared French towns (87.5%). No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 11.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules JeanneneyNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 173 | 87%−7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, above Haute-Saône’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. 16% of residents have reached 65. Among adults, 38% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Saône 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Rioz | Haute-Saône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Saône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Homes sold for a median €2,096/m², between Haute-Saône’s towns (€1,108/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses accounted for 71% of sales, apartments for the rest. Sales in Rioz from July 2023 to June 2026: 65 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,139/m² | 46 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Jobs located in Rioz: 1,200, for 1,150 residents in work (1 each). The median disposable income was €26,400 a year per consumption unit, higher than Haute-Saône’s towns (€22,560) and near compared French towns (€25,970). Public transport took 3.1% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Rioz 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 Rioz 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rioz | 2,398 | — | — | B+ | A | A+ |
| Thise Doubs | 2,994 | 10 | — | C | — | B− |
| Les Auxons Doubs | 2,533 | 10 | — | C | — | A− |
| Miserey-Salines Doubs | 2,661 | 11 | — | C− | — | A |
| École-Valentin Doubs | 2,579 | 11 | A− | C− | B+ | A+ |
| Échenoz-la-Méline | 3,158 | 13 | B+ | B+ | A | A− |
| Besançon Doubs | 118,489 | 13 | C | C | C− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 26 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 15% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Rioz grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Rioz is a commune of 2,398 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Riolais. 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.