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Just 12% of residents are 65 or older. Home to 1,665 people, this town lies in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Cuvat’s strongest is schools — bac results at the expected rate; brevet results 3 points above the expected rate. Health is a strength too: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 27% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car (D): 32% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €6,070/m²: 70 m² comes to 10.1 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Cruseilles.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Cuvat 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 3 things Cuvat does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cuvat 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.
Cuvat 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 Cuvat as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Edifice gallo-romain dit Basilique de Boutae, in Annecy, 4.6 mi away.
4.6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cuvat.
Nearly a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, below both Haute-Savoie’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up just over a tenth of the town. Graduates make up 63% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Cuvat | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 25% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 29% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 12% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 4.1% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 16% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 63% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stood at 3.9%, below Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Cuvat has 100 jobs for 850 working residents, 0.1 per worker. Public transport took 2.0% 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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pro: 92% of 40 candidates passed at the vocational lycée within 5 km. At the lycées within 5 km of Cuvat, 97.5% passed the bac, above Haute-Savoie’s towns (93.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The closest collège is 3 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé la Salle Pringy PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 202 | 100%+3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Louis LachenalNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 445 | 98%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 67 deaths in Cuvat from 2016 to 2025; there were 49, 27% fewer. In Haute-Savoie, women can expect to live 86.6 years and men 81.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Cuvat is Antenne Smur Meythet, 3.1 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 A+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
36 sales of houses and apartments in Cuvat, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €6,070/m². Among the homes sold, 67% were houses. Renting a house costs an estimated €16.42/m² a month.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
9 offenses were reported in Cuvat during 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.9 cases of violence against people and 10.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Also worth knowing: in 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 52.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, family days out and other places to visit in and near Cuvat. Best known first.
Nothing in Cuvat 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 Cuvat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuvat | 1,665 | — | — | C+ | — | A |
| Epagny Metz-Tessy | 8,925 | 2.8 | C− | D− | C | C− |
| Argonay | 3,807 | 2.9 | B | D− | C+ | A |
| Cruseilles | 5,376 | 3.6 | A− | C+ | B− | B |
| La Balme-de-Sillingy | 5,336 | 3.6 | B− | C− | A+ | B |
| Groisy | 4,082 | 3.9 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Sillingy | 5,826 | 4 | B+ | D | A | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cuvat has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 87% of compared French towns. 98% of 445 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Louis Lachenal in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. At the collège (Collège privé la Salle Pringy), 100.0% passed the brevet, 3 points above the expected rate. 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 €6,070/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Cuvat grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Cuvat is a commune of 1,665 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Cruseilles. 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 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.