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This town in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has a population of 2,366.
Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 30% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs & income is a strength too — 0.3 jobs per working resident; 6.2% unemployment. At €3,292/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 8.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Vienne Condrieu. Its lowest grade is for walkability: 48% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Chuzelles 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 Chuzelles does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Chuzelles 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.
Chuzelles 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 Chuzelles as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Pont Saint-Martin, in Vienne, 3.6 mi away.
11% 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 Chuzelles.
3.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Isère’s towns (14.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment runs at 6.2%.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 122 residents of Chuzelles died, against 175 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 30% fewer. Life expectancy in Isère: 86.8 years for women and 81.6 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. The nearest emergency department to Chuzelles is Centre hospitalier Lucien Hussel de Vienne, 3.2 mi away.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
55 sales of houses and apartments in Chuzelles, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €3,292/m². Houses were 87% of what sold. From July 2023 to June 2026, 55 homes were sold here.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,229/m² | 48 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly a tenth of the population. People 65 and over make up nearly a fifth of the town, lower than both Isère’s towns (21%) and compared French towns (22%). The median resident of Chuzelles is 43.5 years old.
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Chuzelles | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 33% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Isère 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 2.3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Claude et Germain GrangeNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 193 | 84%−5 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Ella FitzgeraldNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 511 | 95%±0 pts |
| Collège Hector BerliozBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 118 | 98%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Chuzelles were burglary than anything else (2025). Recorded offenses locally came to 37 in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.5 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 13.9.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 26.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Chuzelles is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Chuzelles yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuzelles | 2,366 | — | — | C− | — | A |
| Communay Rhône | 4,540 | 2.5 | B− | C | C+ | A |
| Chasse-sur-Rhône | 6,588 | 3.4 | C− | C− | D− | A− |
| Ternay Rhône | 5,596 | 3.5 | C+ | C− | B− | B+ |
| Vienne | 31,778 | 3.7 | B− | C+ | D | B+ |
| Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 2,746 | 3.8 | B+ | C | A− | A |
| Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon Rhône | 6,186 | 3.9 | B− | C | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Chuzelles has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 53% of compared French towns. 95% of 511 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Ella Fitzgerald in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. 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 €3,292/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chuzelles grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Chuzelles is a commune of 2,366 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Vienne Condrieu. 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.