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6,355 residents make their home in this town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Ambilly grades low on several counts. Safety is its weak spot — an average of 9.7 recorded violent incidents and 39.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Taken together, its subjects give Ambilly a D− overall, better than 3% of compared French towns. Fewer journeys need a car: 100% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 43% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At €3,943/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 8.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Annemasse-Les Voirons-Agglomération. Schools are weaker too: bac results 2.7 points below the expected rate; brevet results 6.8 points below the expected rate.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Ambilly 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 2 things Ambilly does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ambilly as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Dolmen dit La Cave ou Chambre aux Fées, in Saint-Cergues, 4.4 mi away.
1.1% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Ambilly 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 Ambilly.
Per resident in work, Ambilly counts 0.3 jobs (700 jobs, 2,800 workers). 15.1% of the labour force were unemployed, higher than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Also worth knowing: after tax and benefits, the median income is €31,680 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Burglary topped the graded crimes in Ambilly (2025). Over 2025, Ambilly logged 360 recorded offenses. This Haute-Savoie town comes 55th of the 57 compared towns in Haute-Savoie on the Safety Grade.
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 sexual violence and armed robbery, 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, 1.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €3,943/m²: 331 houses and apartments sold in Ambilly between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses were 8% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments | €3,889/m² | 304 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pro: 66% of 117 candidates passed at the 2 vocational lycées within 5 km. Nine in ten candidates passed the bac at the lycées within 5 km of Ambilly, below Haute-Savoie’s towns (93.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. Results rank its schools #53 of 61 in Haute-Savoie.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Michel ServetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 259 | 73%−4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent des GlièresNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 319 | 94%+1 pt |
| Lycée général privé Saint-François PrivateBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateGeneral lycée | General lycée | 131 | 100%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group: 9.5%, near Haute-Savoie’s towns (9.8%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by just over a third of adults. The middle age in Ambilly is 38.4.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ambilly | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 31% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Haute-Savoie: 86.6 years for women and 81.8 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. Its care home for older people (85 places) counts its residents as Ambilly’s; allowing for it, deaths were 15% below expected. 538 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, close to the 536 that France’s rates at each age predict.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Ambilly. Best known first.
21 notable people were born in Ambilly.
Antonin Guigonnat: Pavel Hrdlička (Czech Wikipedia user Packa ), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Nabilla Benattia: Gilzetbase, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charlie Conord: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pierre Cormon: Caïus Gracchus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Marie François: Dacoucou, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jules Segers: A-Guyon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ambilly is a commune of 6,355 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Annemasse-Les Voirons-Agglomération. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambilly | 6,355 | — | D− | D | D− | B |
| Annemasse | 37,628 | 0.8 | D− | D | D− | B |
| Gaillard | 11,423 | 1 | D | D | D− | B− |
| Ville-la-Grand | 9,514 | 1.3 | C− | C− | D− | B+ |
| Vétraz-Monthoux | 10,949 | 1.9 | C− | D | C− | A− |
| Étrembières | 2,679 | 2 | D | D− | D | A |
| Cranves-Sales | 7,762 | 3.6 | C | D− | B− | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D− for safety, #55 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 86 burglaries and 79 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 8% of compared French towns and #53 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. The lycée stands out: 94% of 319 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent des Glières 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.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,943/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ambilly 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.