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The town, home to 5,826 people, lies in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The everyday basics are strong; the price of a home is the catch. It is a safe place by the numbers: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 9.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Sillingy’s overall grade is B+, better than 67% of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #13 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. Households here earn well: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 7.1% unemployment. Homes are dear (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its schools fall short: brevet results 6.1 points below the expected rate.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Sillingy does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Sillingy 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Sillingy as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Edifice gallo-romain dit Basilique de Boutae, in Annecy, 4.6 mi away.
4.4% 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 Sillingy.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house in Sillingy goes for €4,939/m², an apartment for €4,541/m². Half the homes sold went for more than €4,660/m², higher than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (€4,342/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Also worth knowing: among the homes sold, 53% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,939/m² | 81 |
| Apartments | €4,541/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Sillingy. All told, Sillingy had 73 recorded offenses in 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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence and armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 7.3% 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.
There are 6 general practitioners in Sillingy. 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. France’s death rates at each age would predict 344 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 330, 4% fewer.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Among adults, 39% have a degree. The 65-and-over age group makes up 15% of residents. The middle age in Sillingy is 39.8.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Sillingy | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 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.
No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 4.4 mi away. Schools rank #44 of 61 in Haute-Savoie.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège la MandallazNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 164 | 85%−7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The jobless rate is 7.1%. The median disposable income was €32,300 a year per consumption unit, near Haute-Savoie’s towns (€33,240) and higher than compared French towns (€25,970). Bus, tram or train carried 3.9% of working residents in Sillingy to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, family days out and heritage in and near Sillingy. Best known first.
Nothing in Sillingy is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Sillingy.
Just Songeon: Inconnu, début des années 1920, Public domain · François Duparc: Jules Buisson (1822-1909), Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sillingy | 5,826 | — | B+ | D | A | A |
| La Balme-de-Sillingy | 5,336 | 1.4 | B− | C− | A+ | B |
| Poisy | 9,291 | 2.3 | B− | D− | B+ | B+ |
| Epagny Metz-Tessy | 8,925 | 2.8 | C− | D− | C | C− |
| Chavanod | 3,135 | 4.3 | — | D | — | A |
| Annecy | 132,117 | 4.7 | C+ | D− | C | B+ |
| Argonay | 3,807 | 5 | B | D− | C+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #6 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 22 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 20% of compared French towns and #44 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 Sillingy grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Sillingy is a commune of 5,826 people in the Communauté de communes Fier et Usses. 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.
