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Just 14% of residents are 65 or older. 2,312 people call this town in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
Brézins’s strongest subject is jobs & income — 1.1 jobs per working resident; 9.8% unemployment. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €2,421/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Bièvre Isère. Schools lag (C−): brevet results 3.4 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Brézins 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 one thing Brézins does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Brézins 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.
Brézins 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 Brézins as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château (ruines), in Bressieux, 2.2 mi away.
16% 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 Brézins.
Degrees are held by 27% of adults. People 65 and over make up 14% of the town, lower than both Isère’s towns (21%) and compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Brézins by age and the one in the middle is 38.8.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Brézins | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 33% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Isère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Brézins is Hopital de Voiron Chu de Grenoble Alpes, 13.2 mi away. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Brézins come to 103 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 129 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 132, 3% more. Average lifespans in Isère: 86.8 years for women, 81.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B−.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
There is no general lycée within 5 km; one lies 3.5 mi away. Collège pupils travel 1.7 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Rose VallandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 122 | 88%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 9.8%, about level with compared French towns (10.1%) and above Isère’s towns (8.1%). At the census, 3.8% of working residents in Brézins didn’t travel to work at all. Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €26,320 a year.
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.
64 sales of houses and apartments in Brézins, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,421/m². Renting a house costs an estimated €11.27/m² a month. The sales split: 86% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,402/m² | 55 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graded property crimes ran at 10.3 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 6.5 (2023–2025 average). Over 2025, Brézins logged 24 recorded offenses. The commonest graded crime here was family violence (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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 34.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Brézins. Best known first.
Nothing in Brézins is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Brézins.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brézins | 2,312 | — | — | B− | — | C− |
| Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs | 3,425 | 1.9 | B | B− | C+ | B+ |
| Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux | 3,186 | 2.6 | D | B | C | C+ |
| La Côte-Saint-André | 4,873 | 3.8 | C− | C+ | D− | C− |
| Le Grand-Lemps | 3,083 | 6.4 | B | B | B | B− |
| Renage | 3,348 | 8.9 | B | B+ | B+ | B |
| Rives | 6,549 | 9.4 | C+ | B− | C+ | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Brézins has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 23% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,421/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Brézins grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Brézins is a commune of 2,312 people in the Communauté de communes Bièvre Isère. 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 October 30, 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.