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2,180 residents make their home in this town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Households here earn well: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 4.5% unemployment. Its lowest grade is for cost of living (C+) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is weaker too: just over two in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €4,386/m².
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. Eteaux 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 Eteaux does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Eteaux 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.
Eteaux 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 Eteaux 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, 1.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Eteaux. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de La Roche-sur-Foron2.6 km east, in La Roche-sur-ForonMonastery or conventMonastery or conventCouvent des Bernardins de La Roche-sur-Foron2.1 km east, in La Roche-sur-ForonChâteauChâteauChâteau du Saix2.5 km east, in La Roche-sur-ForonChâteauChâteauChâteau de l'Échelle2.6 km east, in La Roche-sur-ForonChâteauChâteauChâteau d'Amancy3.8 km east, in AmancyChâteauChâteauChâteau de St SIXT4.1 km east, in Saint-SixtPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Eteaux.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Haute-Savoie, women can expect to live 86.6 years and men 81.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 86 deaths in Eteaux between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 117: 26% below. The nearest emergency department to Eteaux is Centre hospitalier Alpes Leman, 5.5 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 B− to A+.
Children under 15 make up 20%, above Haute-Savoie’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Retirement age and beyond: 15% of residents are 65 or older. Eteaux has a median age of 41.2.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Eteaux | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.8% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 49% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Eteaux is 99.3%, above Haute-Savoie’s towns (93.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The closest collège is 1.3 mi off. At the general lycée, 100% of 205 candidates passed the bac, a point above the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Sainte-Marie PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 175 | 99%±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent privé Sainte-Famille - ESCR PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 205 | 100%+1 pt |
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.
Among the homes sold, 70% were houses. The market in Eteaux: 54 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,568/m² | 38 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Of those in the labour force, 4.5% are unemployed. Public transport took 7.5% of Eteaux’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 2.4% of working residents in Eteaux didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.1 violent offenses and 7.8 graded property crimes a year. In all, 13 offenses reached the police record in Eteaux in 2025. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Eteaux (2025).
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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (56.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Eteaux is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Eteaux as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eteaux | 2,180 | — | — | C+ | — | A |
| La Roche-sur-Foron | 11,348 | 1.3 | A− | C | B− | B− |
| Amancy | 2,792 | 2.4 | A | D | A− | A |
| Pers-Jussy | 3,245 | 3 | — | C | — | A |
| Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny | 7,865 | 4.3 | B | C | A− | B− |
| Reignier-Ésery | 8,464 | 4.9 | C+ | C | C− | C |
| Bonneville | 13,335 | 6.1 | C− | C− | C+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Eteaux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 81% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Eteaux grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Eteaux is a commune of 2,180 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Rochois. 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 9, 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.