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1,227 residents make their home in this town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Work and incomes are strong: 1.7 jobs per working resident; 2.7% unemployment. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: 63% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 27% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Cost of living is its weak spot: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 16.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. 85% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Les Gets 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 Les Gets does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Les Gets 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.
Les Gets 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 Les Gets as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye, in Abondance, 9.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Les Gets.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Les Gets sell for €7,038/m², houses for €8,858/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €15.80/m² a month, below Haute-Savoie’s towns (€18.15/m²) but above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €14.46/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €8,858/m² | 67 |
| Apartments | €7,038/m² | 279 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Just over a quarter of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. Half of residents lived on more than €30,280 a year per consumption unit, between Haute-Savoie’s towns (€33,240) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Retirement age and beyond: just over a quarter of residents are 65 or older. Degrees are held by 36% of adults, about level with Haute-Savoie’s towns (37%) and above compared French towns (30%). The age that splits Les Gets in two is 47.
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Les Gets | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.2% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 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.
The nearest emergency department to Les Gets is Hopitaux du Mont Blanc site Sallanches, 15.2 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 113 residents of Les Gets died, against 127 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% fewer. In Haute-Savoie, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.6 years for women and 81.8 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. There are 5 general practitioners locally.
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−.
Other places to visit, family days out and museums in and near Les Gets. Best known first.
Nothing in Les Gets 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 Les Gets 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 →
Les Gets has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.6 recorded violent incidents and 18.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Les Gets grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Les Gets is a commune of 1,227 people in the Communauté de communes du Haut-Chablais. 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.