Barraux has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 5.7% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Barraux 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.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Barraux.
Who lives here
Barraux has fewer older residents than Isère’s towns or compared French towns: 15% are 65 or over
One measure of family life: 20% of residents are under 15. Degrees are held by 45% of adults, higher than both Isère’s towns (33%) and compared French towns (30%). The median resident of Barraux is 43.3 years old.
43.3median age
BarrauxIsère medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
10%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma12%
CAP or BEP23%
Baccalauréat16%
Higher education45%
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
History
2 historic monuments and a protected historic area since 2016
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Part of the town has been a protected historic area, a site patrimonial remarquable, since 2016. On the Culture ministry’s list, Barraux counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second. Among the classé monuments here is Fort Barraux, appelé autrefois fort Saint-Barthélémy. Its heritage reaches back to the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B
Allowing for age and care homes, deaths in Barraux run lower than in 59% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 130 deaths in Barraux from 2016 to 2025; there were 111, 15% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Barraux is Hopital Prive Medipole de Savoie, 7.9 mi away. At birth, a girl in Isère can expect 86.8 years and a boy 81.6 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
−15%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw85
Adjusted85
Median town88
Expected100
0
GPs in Barraux · 4.2 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
7.9 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Hopital Prive Medipole de Savoie
9.7 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Metropole Savoie site Chambery Mco
86.8 · 81.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Isère, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Barraux is better off than Isère’s towns or compared French towns: the median disposable income is €30,050 a year per consumption unit
Of those in the labour force, 5.7% are unemployed. Public transport took just over a tenth of Barraux’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 4.5% of working residents in Barraux didn’t travel to work at all.
15%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving79%
Public transport11%
On foot3%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
400
jobs based in Barraux, 0.4 per working resident
5.7%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€30,050
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
4%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 52% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HousingCost of living B−
Buying in Barraux costs more than in both Isère’s towns and compared French towns: the median sale is €2,993/m²
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A home here costs 6.7 years of the median income in Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan. Houses accounted for 94% of sales, apartments for the rest. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €12.14/m² a month.
€2,993/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Barraux€2,993/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Isère median€2,716/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€3,010/m²
45
€12.76/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€10.26 to €15.87/m² a month)
6.7
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€12.14/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€31,390
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Barraux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average
In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Barraux. All told, Barraux had 24 recorded offenses in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 10.9 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 4 (2023–2025 average).
4recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage9
Family violence5
Burglary5
Theft from vehicles5
Armed robbery0
Fraud9
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.
4
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
10.9
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
24
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
35.5%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (35.5% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Château du Fayet: Photo: Auteur inconnu Unknown author · Public domain · Fort Barraux, appelé autrefois fort Saint-Barthélémy: Photo: NojePierpz · CC BY-SA 4.0
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Barraux
Is Barraux safe?
Barraux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 9 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Barraux good?
They grade A−, better than 80% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Barraux expensive to live in?
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.76/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Barraux grades B− for cost of living.
About Barraux
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Barraux is a commune of 2,016 people in the Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan. 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
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.
