Cluses’s lowest grade is for safety: an average of 12.4 recorded violent incidents and 16.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. The town’s overall grade of C− puts it better than 18% of compared French towns, #51 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. Prices are high against local incomes: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is easy to get around without a car: 94% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 19% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
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.
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 Cluses 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.
Pont dit le Pont Vieux: Photo: TarichaRivularis · CC BY-SA 3.0
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cluses.
Work & commuteJobs & income C
Money is tighter in Cluses than in Haute-Savoie’s towns or compared French towns: the median disposable income is €24,860 a year per consumption unit
19%walk, cycle or take transit
Jobs based in Cluses number 9,250, against 7,550 residents in work (1.2 per worker). Unemployment stood at 13.3%, higher than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Walking, cycling and public transport carried 18.8% of commuters at the census.
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving78%
On foot11%
Bicycle5%
Public transport3%
Motorbike or scooter1%
9,250
jobs based in Cluses, 1.2 per working resident
13.3%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,860
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
2%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
A
Walkability: better than 91% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Cluses records more crime per resident than 78% of compared French towns
12.4recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearC−Safety Grade
Police and gendarmerie figures for Cluses show 521 offenses in 2025. More of the graded crimes in the town were criminal damage than anything else (2025).
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage155
Family violence111
Other physical violence95
Theft from vehicles43
Vehicle theft41
Burglary40
Sexual violence36
Theft without violence145
Fraud129
Drug use50
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.
12.4
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
16.7
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
521
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
0.2%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 0.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
HousingCost of living C
Renting in Cluses costs an estimated advertised €14.64/m² a month, against €18.15/m² in Haute-Savoie’s towns and €12.41/m² in compared French towns
€2,406/m²median sale price
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €2,406/m², below Haute-Savoie’s towns (€4,342/m²) and close to compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Cluses is the cheapest of the 69 towns in Haute-Savoie: its median sale is €2,406/m². Houses in Cluses sell for €3,441/m² and apartments for €2,257/m².
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Cluses€2,406/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Haute-Savoie median€4,342/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€3,441/m²
95
Apartments
€2,257/m²
520
€14.64/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€11.79 to €18.18/m² a month)
6.1
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€14.46/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€27,400
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Cluses-Arve et Montagnes
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth C
Allowing for age and care homes, deaths in Cluses run higher than in 71% of compared French towns
−4%deaths against expected, after care homesCHealth Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its two care homes for older people (112 places) count their residents as Cluses’; allowing for them, deaths were 4% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 1,305 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,363, 4% more. The nearest emergency department to Cluses is Hopitaux du Mont Blanc site Sallanches, 9.7 mi away. The town has 13 family doctors.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw104
Adjusted96
Median town88
Expected100
13
GPs in Cluses · 3.7 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
9.7 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Hopitaux du Mont Blanc site Sallanches
9.7 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Hopitaux du Mont Blanc site Sallanches
86.6 · 81.8
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Haute-Savoie, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
A young town: 13% of people in Cluses are 15 to 24, more than in Haute-Savoie’s towns or compared French towns
40.6median age
Nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over, higher than Haute-Savoie’s towns (17%) yet lower than compared French towns (22%). The middle age in Cluses is 40.6.
ClusesHaute-Savoie medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
13%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma30%
CAP or BEP26%
Baccalauréat16%
Higher education22%
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Schools
83.6% of candidates passed the brevet at the four collèges within 5 km, 3.9 points below the expected rate
96%passed the bac (general and technological)C+School Grade
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 84% passed the bac pro, of 99 candidates at 2 lycées. Its collèges and lycées rank #30 of 61 in Haute-Savoie on results. Near Cluses, 93.9% of lycée candidates passed the bac, close to both Haute-Savoie’s towns (93.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
Anthony Benna: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Léonhard Quaglia: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain · Willy Rovelli: Hugo Trignac, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Andy Foliot: Jice38, CC BY-SA 3.0
About Cluses
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Cluses is a commune of 17,795 people in the Communauté de communes Cluses-Arve et Montagnes. 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
Population
17,795 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Cluses-Arve et Montagnes
Département
Haute-Savoie (74)
Région
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Area
4 sq mi (10.4 km²)
INSEE code
74081
Cluses’ neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Cluses
Is Cluses safe?
It grades C− for safety, #48 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 40 burglaries and 155 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Cluses good?
They grade C+, better than 42% of compared French towns and #30 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. The lycée stands out: 95% of 397 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Charles Poncet 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.
Is Cluses expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Cluses grades C for cost of living.
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.
