Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 6,309 people, lies in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The everyday basics are strong; the price of a home is the catch. Its best grade is for health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. With a B+ overall, Thyez sits #12 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. That leaves it better than nearly three quarters of compared French towns. Jobs & income is a strength too (A): 1 job per working resident; 8.1% unemployment. Housing is expensive (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B for safety and C+ for schools.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · 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.
Each subject compares Thyez 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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The Culture ministry lists no building in Thyez as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne chartreuse, actuellement couvent de Carmélites, in Le Reposoir, 5.3 mi away.
1.8% 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 Thyez.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Thyez is Centre hospitalier Alpes Leman, 11.2 mi away. 367 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 544: 33% below. Also worth knowing: in Haute-Savoie, women can expect to live 86.6 years and men 81.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The town has 4 family doctors.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In Thyez, houses go for €3,515/m² and apartments for €3,022/m². Homes sold for a median €3,158/m², below Haute-Savoie’s towns (€4,342/m²) but above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). The sales split: 27% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,515/m² | 67 |
| Apartments | €3,022/m² | 178 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
At the census, 10.3% of commuters got to work without a car. For its 2,900 residents in work, Thyez has 2,900 jobs: 1 each. Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, about level with Haute-Savoie’s towns (8.1%) and below compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In all, 104 offenses reached the police record in Thyez in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 7.3 violent offenses and 11.4 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Thyez (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 · The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 84% passed the bac pro, of 99 candidates at 2 lycées. School results put the town #29 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. A collège lies 0.9 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean-Jacques GallayNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 169 | 73%−9 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Charles PoncetNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 397 | 95%+1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Saint-Jean Bosco - Les Cordeliers PrivateBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 45 | 96%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Retirement age and beyond: 21% of residents are 65 or older. 31% of adults hold a degree, below Haute-Savoie’s towns (37%) and close to compared French towns (30%). Typical age in Thyez: 43.9, the median.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Thyez | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Thyez. Best known first.
Nothing in Thyez 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 Thyez yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
It grades B for safety, #23 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 12 burglaries and 37 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 43% of compared French towns and #29 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. The lycée stands out: 95% of 397 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Charles Poncet in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Thyez grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Thyez is a commune of 6,309 people in the Communauté de communes Cluses-Arve et Montagnes. 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.