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The town, home to 2,376 people, lies in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Jobs & income is its strong suit (A+): 0.6 jobs per working resident; 5.8% unemployment. Schools lag: bac results 5.1 points below the expected rate; brevet results 4 points below the expected rate. At €3,636/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 8.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Faucigny-Glières. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: a fifth of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Ayse 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.
Each subject compares Ayse 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.
Ayse has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Ayse does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ayse as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix de chemin en pierre provenant de l'ancien cimetiere de Farlon, in La Roche-sur-Foron, 5.9 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Ayse 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 Ayse.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The brevet pass rate near Ayse is 82.0%, below both Haute-Savoie’s towns (87.3%) and compared French towns (87.5%). Vocational results within 5 km: 76% passed the bac pro, of 120 candidates at 2 lycées. A collège lies 1.3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège SamivelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 161 | 82%−4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Guillaume FichetNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 296 | 93%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €3,636/m²: 59 houses and apartments sold in Ayse between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses were 63% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,104/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 5.8%, lower than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 3.1% of Ayse’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 40% of adults, above both Haute-Savoie’s towns (37%) and compared French towns (30%). Over-65s are 21% of the population. Half of Ayse is older than 44.3, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ayse | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 40% | 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.
At birth, a girl in Haute-Savoie can expect 86.6 years and a boy 81.8 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 176 deaths in Ayse from 2016 to 2025; there were 153, 13% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Ayse is Centre hospitalier Alpes Leman, 6.9 mi away.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
The commonest graded crime in Ayse was criminal damage (2025). All told, Ayse had 20 recorded offenses in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.9 cases of violence against people and 9.2 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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, vehicle theft 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, 42.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Ayse. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Ayse as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ayse is a commune of 2,376 people in the Communauté de communes Faucigny-Glières. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayse | 2,376 | — | — | D | — | B− |
| Bonneville | 13,335 | 1.4 | C− | C− | C+ | C |
| Marignier | 6,507 | 3.2 | C+ | C− | A− | C+ |
| Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny | 7,865 | 3.3 | B | C | A− | B− |
| Saint-Jeoire | 3,457 | 4.3 | A− | B− | A | C− |
| Marnaz | 5,964 | 4.7 | B− | C− | A− | C− |
| Thyez | 6,309 | 4.8 | B+ | D | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ayse has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 10% of compared French towns. 93% of 296 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Guillaume Fichet in 2025, 3 points below 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 €3,636/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ayse 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.