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This town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has a population of 1,152.
Work and incomes are strong: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 8.1% unemployment. Its weakest subject is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is weaker too: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 4% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Schools are weaker too — brevet results 6 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Machilly 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 one thing Machilly does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Machilly 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.
Machilly 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 Machilly as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix de chemin en bois sculpté, in Saint-Cergues, 1.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Machilly.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
At the median, a home went for €4,203/m², near Haute-Savoie’s towns (€4,342/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€2,430/m²). The sales split: 71% houses, the rest apartments. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 35 homes in Machilly.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Machilly come to 104 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 72 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 75, 4% more. The nearest emergency department to Machilly is Hopital Prive Pays de Savoie, 6.9 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Machilly can choose among 3 GPs.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to B.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest general lycée is 5.1 mi away. A collège lies 1.7 mi away. 88.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Machilly, about level with both Haute-Savoie’s towns (87.3%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François MugnierNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 165 | 88%−6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The share of residents under 15 is 17%. 29% of adults hold a degree, lower than Haute-Savoie’s towns (37%) and near compared French towns (30%). The median resident of Machilly is 42 years old.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Machilly | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
3.6% of Machilly’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. The jobless rate is 8.1%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
13 offenses were reported in Machilly during 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 20 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 5.9 (2023–2025 average). Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Machilly (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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 38.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Machilly 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 Machilly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machilly | 1,152 | — | — | D | — | D |
| Saint-Cergues | 3,869 | 1.5 | C− | D | C+ | B |
| Bons-en-Chablais | 6,343 | 1.8 | C+ | C− | C+ | B+ |
| Veigy-Foncenex | 4,141 | 3.6 | B− | D− | B | A |
| Douvaine | 6,796 | 3.9 | C | D | C+ | A |
| Cranves-Sales | 7,762 | 4.6 | C | D− | B− | A |
| Ville-la-Grand | 9,514 | 5.2 | C− | C− | D− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Machilly has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 21% 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 Machilly grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Machilly is a commune of 1,152 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Annemasse-Les Voirons-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
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.