Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Only 12% of residents are 65 or over. 5,809 residents make their home in this town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Viry’s best grade is for health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 32% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. What holds it back is cost of living (C) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The overall grade comes out at B, #20 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. Set against the rest, it does better than 62% of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety, B for schools, B− for jobs & income and B− for walkability.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · 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 · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
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 Viry does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Viry 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 Viry as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Voltaire, in Ferney-Voltaire, 10.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Viry.
One measure of family life: 20% of residents are under 15. Degrees are held by 42% of adults, above both Haute-Savoie’s towns (37%) and compared French towns (30%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.6%.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Viry | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 35% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 12% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 337 deaths in Viry from 2016 to 2025; there were 283, 16% fewer. Life expectancy at birth in Haute-Savoie is 86.6 years for women and 81.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Viry is Ch Annecy Genevois site St Julien En Genevois, 2.8 mi away.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €4,770/m²: 222 houses and apartments sold in Viry between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses in Viry sell for €4,540/m² and apartments for €4,841/m². Of the homes sold, 35% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,540/m² | 78 |
| Apartments | €4,841/m² | 144 |
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.
A collège lies 2.7 mi away. The bac pass rate near Viry is 94.6%, about level with Haute-Savoie’s towns (93.9%) and above compared French towns (92.9%). Results rank its schools #17 of 61 in Haute-Savoie.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Présentation de Marie PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 147 | 99%+2 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Madame de StaëlNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 322 | 93%−3 pts |
| Lycée général privé Présentation de Marie PrivateBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateGeneral lycée | General lycée | 94 | 100%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.6 violent offenses and 16.8 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Police and gendarmerie recorded 120 offenses in Viry in 2025. In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes here.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence and armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 2.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Jobs located in Viry: 700, for 3,000 residents in work (0.2 each). Of those in the labour force, 9.2% are unemployed. At the census, 7.6% of working residents in Viry went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, family days out and other places to visit in and near Viry. Best known first.
Nothing in Viry is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Viry as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viry | 5,809 | — | B | C | B− | A |
| Saint-Julien-en-Genevois | 16,222 | 2.8 | B− | C | C | A |
| Valleiry | 5,264 | 3.2 | B− | C+ | B+ | B+ |
| Beaumont | 3,097 | 3.8 | B | C− | C+ | A |
| Collonges-sous-Salève | 3,832 | 5.7 | B− | C | D | A |
| Cruseilles | 5,376 | 7 | A− | C+ | B− | B |
| Péron Ain | 2,916 | 7.3 | A | C− | A | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #33 of 57 in Haute-Savoie. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 31 burglaries and 27 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 59% of compared French towns and #17 of 61 in Haute-Savoie. 93% of 322 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Madame de Staël in 2025, 3 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €4,770/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Viry grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Viry is a commune of 5,809 people in the Communauté de communes du Genevois. 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.