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Few residents are of retirement age: 12% are 65 or over. 1,659 people call this town in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
Vougy’s strongest subject is jobs & income: 1.1 jobs per working resident; 9.4% unemployment. School results trail most towns (D): brevet results 6.1 points below the expected rate. Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is weaker too: 73% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Vougy 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.
Each subject compares Vougy 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.
Vougy has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Vougy does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Vougy 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, 5.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Vougy is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vougy.
Degrees are held by just over a fifth of adults. Children under 15 count for just over a fifth of the people here. Add to that, the 15-to-24 age group makes up 12% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Vougy | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 12% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 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.
The nearest collège is 1.6 mi away. The closest lycée for the general bac is 3.3 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Camille ClaudelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 155 | 86%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €15.06/m² a month, between Haute-Savoie’s towns (€18.15/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house rents for an estimated €14.35/m² a month. Vougy recorded 32 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
6.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Haute-Savoie’s towns (15.5%) and compared French towns (13.4%). The jobless rate is 9.4%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Vougy is Centre hospitalier Alpes Leman, 9.1 mi away. 66 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 77: 14% below. At birth, a girl in Haute-Savoie can expect 86.6 years and a boy 81.8 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
Violence against people ran at 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 5.9 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes in Vougy were sexual violence than anything else (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 · When family violence, other physical violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (100.0% of the index here).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Vougy yet.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Vougy is a commune of 1,659 people in the Communauté de communes Faucigny-Glières. 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
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Vougy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D, better than 6% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Vougy grades C− for cost of living.
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.