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A town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, home to 1,062 people.
Marlioz’s strongest subject is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 28% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The local economy does well (A−): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment. Cost of living is its weak spot: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 51% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It lags on walkability as well: 2% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Marlioz 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 Marlioz does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Marlioz 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.
Marlioz 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 Marlioz as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is église Saint-Étienne, in Clermont, 6.2 mi away.
13% 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 Marlioz.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 7.6% of residents, below both Haute-Savoie’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (11%). 11% of residents have reached 65. Degrees are held by just over two in five adults.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Marlioz | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 26% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.6% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 32% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 11% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
The jobless rate is 6.0%. At the census, 4.4% of working residents in Marlioz didn’t travel to work at all. 3.0% of the town’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 91% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €16.95/m² a month. Of the homes sold, 88% were houses. Sales in Marlioz from July 2023 to June 2026: 25 houses and apartments.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 34 residents of Marlioz died, against 47 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 28% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Marlioz is Centre hospitalier Annecy Genevois site Annecy, 8.3 mi away. In Haute-Savoie, women can expect to live 86.6 years and men 81.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 C to A+.
Heritage in and near Marlioz. Best known first.
Nothing in Marlioz 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 Marlioz 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlioz | 1,062 | — | — | D− | — | A |
| La Balme-de-Sillingy | 5,336 | 4.3 | B− | C− | A+ | B |
| Cruseilles | 5,376 | 4.7 | A− | C+ | B− | B |
| Sillingy | 5,826 | 5.7 | B+ | D | A | A |
| Valleiry | 5,264 | 6.1 | B− | C+ | B+ | B+ |
| Viry | 5,809 | 6.4 | B | C | B− | A |
| Beaumont | 3,097 | 6.8 | B | C− | C+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Marlioz has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.2 recorded violent incidents and 9.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Marlioz is a commune of 1,062 people in the Communauté de communes Usses et Rhône. 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) · 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.