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3,869 residents make their home in this town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Saint-Cergues’s lowest grade is for cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Work and incomes are strong: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 7.9% unemployment. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: 52% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Put together, the subjects come to a C− overall, ranking #47 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. It comes out better than 23% of compared French towns.
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.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Saint-Cergues does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Cergues 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.
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Saint-Cergues has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1889.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Cergues.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
At the median, a home went for €4,372/m², close to Haute-Savoie’s towns (€4,342/m²) and above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). In Saint-Cergues, houses go for €4,535/m² and apartments for €4,263/m². The sales split: 65% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,535/m² | 87 |
| Apartments | €4,263/m² | 47 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
By results, schools here place #42 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. The nearest general lycée is 3.9 mi away. A collège lies 3 mi away.
| 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
Degrees are held by 34% of adults. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 10% of residents, close to both Haute-Savoie’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (11%). Ages in Saint-Cergues split evenly at 41.2: half are older, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Cergues | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
7.9% of the labour force were unemployed, near Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and lower than compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes in Saint-Cergues. 106 offenses were reported in Saint-Cergues during 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.3 violent offenses and 19.5 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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 sexual violence and armed robbery, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 5.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Haute-Savoie: 86.6 years for women and 81.8 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 273 deaths in Saint-Cergues from 2016 to 2025; there were 230, 16% fewer. One GP practises 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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Saint-Cergues is Dolmen dit La Cave ou Chambre aux Fées. The oldest protected building goes back to prehistory. Homes from before 1919 make up nearly a tenth of the total, above Haute-Savoie’s towns (4.9%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage and museums in and near Saint-Cergues. Best known first.
Saint-Cergues has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
Croix de chemin en bois sculpté: Photo: TarichaRivularis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dolmen dit La Cave ou Chambre aux Fées: Photo: TarichaRivularis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Cergues 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Cergues | 3,869 | — | C− | D | C+ | B |
| Cranves-Sales | 7,762 | 3.1 | C | D− | B− | A |
| Bons-en-Chablais | 6,343 | 3.2 | C+ | C− | C+ | B+ |
| Veigy-Foncenex | 4,141 | 3.9 | B− | D− | B | A |
| Ville-la-Grand | 9,514 | 3.9 | C− | C− | D− | B+ |
| Bonne | 3,267 | 4.4 | C+ | D | B | B+ |
| Vétraz-Monthoux | 10,949 | 4.6 | C− | D | C− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #38 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 35 burglaries and 22 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 21% of compared French towns and #42 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Cergues grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Cergues is a commune of 3,869 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 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.