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Home to 1,270 people, this town lies in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 5.2% unemployment. The weak point is cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 39% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 10% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Cervens 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 Cervens 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.
Cervens has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Cervens as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine des châteaux d'Allinges ou des Allinges, in Allinges, 3.2 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Cervens 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 Cervens.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Among the homes sold, 92% were houses. House rents are put at about €19.74/m² a month. 24 houses and apartments changed hands in Cervens from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 5.2%, lower than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 4.3% of working residents in Cervens didn’t travel to work at all. Public transport took 7.6% of Cervens’ working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
A fifth of residents are 65 or over, higher than Haute-Savoie’s towns (17%) yet lower than compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for nearly a tenth of the town. Also worth knowing: among adults, 37% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Cervens | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 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 153 deaths in Cervens from 2016 to 2025; there were 240, 57% more. The nearest emergency department to Cervens is Hopitaux du Leman, 5.4 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Heritage and museums in and near Cervens. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cervens yet.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Cervens is a commune of 1,270 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Thonon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cervens | 1,270 | — | — | C | — | C+ |
| Allinges | 5,019 | 3.7 | — | C | — | A− |
| Bons-en-Chablais | 6,343 | 4 | C+ | C− | C+ | B+ |
| Sciez | 6,447 | 4.3 | C | C− | B− | B |
| Thonon-les-Bains | 37,928 | 6.1 | C | C− | C | C+ |
| Douvaine | 6,796 | 6.9 | C | D | C+ | A |
| Saint-Cergues | 3,869 | 6.9 | C− | D | C+ | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cervens has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.9 recorded violent incidents and 10.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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 8, 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.