Find your town in Hautes-Alpes
Hautes-Alpes has 162 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 7 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 17 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Hautes-Alpes is like
The median ranked town in Hautes-Alpes grades highest on walkability and schools against towns across France, and lowest on cost of living. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
0 of 6 (0%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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6 towns · ordered by Hautes-Alpes rank
1 of these towns has a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of its index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
Towns without an overall grade
Each has its page and the subject grades it has. In France an overall grade needs a Safety Grade, and five graded subjects in all.
155 smaller towns and villages in Hautes-Alpes
With the 7 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 162 communes of Hautes-Alpes, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
138 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Hautes-Alpes
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Hautes-Alpes
What is the best place to live in Hautes-Alpes?
Veynes ranks first of 6 graded towns of 2,500 or more: walkability (A) and health (A−) are its strongest grades; jobs & income (C) is its lowest. Gap and Chorges follow.
How do the biggest towns in Hautes-Alpes grade?
Gap (41,293 people) grades B+ overall, with its best grade in walkability. Briançon (11,411 people) grades B overall, with its best grade in walkability.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Hautes-Alpes, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Hautes-Alpes on TownRatings?
Yes: all 162 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 7 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 17 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 138 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
The ranking covers towns of 2,500 or more with an overall grade. La Bâtie-Neuve has no overall grade; its page shows the grades it has, and why.
Photos: Veynes, AirScott (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Gap, Le corrigateur (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Chorges, Pline (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Briançon, Zairon (CC BY 4.0) · Embrun, Florian Pépellin (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Laragne-Montéglin, cagouille05 (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.