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In Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, this town has 1,783 residents.
The local economy does well: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 7.4% unemployment. Schools lag: brevet results 17 points below the expected rate. Walkability is weaker too — 96% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At €4,512/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 6.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Genevois.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Vulbens 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.
The 2 things Vulbens does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vulbens 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.
Vulbens has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Vulbens as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is église Saint-Étienne, in Clermont, 9 mi away.
13% 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 Vulbens.
Those aged 15 to 24 account for 8.5% of residents. 11% of residents are 65 or over, below both Haute-Savoie’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up 37% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Savoie 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Vulbens | Haute-Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 26% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.5% | 9.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 34% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 20% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 11% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 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 5.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du VuacheNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 131 | 75%−17 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
64 deaths in Vulbens between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 77: 17% below. The nearest emergency department to Vulbens is Ch Annecy Genevois site St Julien En Genevois, 7.5 mi away. Also worth knowing: 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.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
The jobless rate is 7.4%. No commute at all: 2.3% of working residents in Vulbens at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €4,512/m²: 79 houses and apartments sold in Vulbens between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses made up just over two thirds of the homes sold; apartments the rest. House rents are put at about €15.50/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,519/m² | 54 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Vulbens’s tally for 2025: 17 recorded offenses. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 3.8 cases of violence against people and 15.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 38.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit and heritage in and near Vulbens. Best known first.
Nothing in Vulbens is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Vulbens.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulbens | 1,783 | — | — | C+ | — | B |
| Valleiry | 5,264 | 1.7 | B− | C+ | B+ | B+ |
| Viry | 5,809 | 4.9 | B | C | B− | A |
| Valserhône Ain | 16,712 | 5.9 | D | C− | C− | C |
| Péron Ain | 2,916 | 6.1 | A | C− | A | A |
| Saint-Julien-en-Genevois | 16,222 | 7.5 | B− | C | C | A |
| Beaumont | 3,097 | 8.3 | B | C− | C+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Vulbens has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 1% of compared French towns. 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 €4,512/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Vulbens grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Vulbens is a commune of 1,783 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.