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A town of 1,487 in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 17% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Prices are high against local incomes: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is hard to get around without a car (C): 1% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Faverges-de-la-Tour 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.
Each subject compares Faverges-de-la-Tour 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.
Faverges-de-la-Tour has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Faverges-de-la-Tour does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Faverges-de-la-Tour as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Bellegarde, in Chassignieu, 6.2 mi away.
23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Faverges-de-la-Tour is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Faverges-de-la-Tour.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €13.67/m² a month, near Isère’s towns (€13.13/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). From July 2023 to June 2026, 37 homes were sold in Faverges-de-la-Tour. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €12.88/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,514/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Jobs based in Faverges-de-la-Tour number 150, against 700 residents in work (0.2 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €28,070 a year per consumption unit, close to Isère’s towns (€27,110) and above compared French towns (€25,970). Public transport took 6.0% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Under-15s account for nearly a fifth of the population. Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, lower than both Isère’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Half of Faverges-de-la-Tour is older than 43, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Faverges-de-la-Tour | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 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.
At birth, a girl in Isère can expect 86.8 years and a boy 81.6 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 80 deaths in Faverges-de-la-Tour between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 96: 17% below. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 83 per 100 expected, about level with Isère’s towns (84) and below compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Faverges-de-la-Tour is Ch Yves Touraine, 8.2 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
The police record for Faverges-de-la-Tour lists 18 offenses in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 10.8 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 4.1 (2023–2025 average). In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes here.
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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 55.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Faverges-de-la-Tour yet.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Faverges-de-la-Tour is a commune of 1,487 people in the Communauté de communes Les Vals du Dauphiné. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faverges-de-la-Tour | 1,487 | — | — | C | — | B+ |
| Dolomieu | 3,173 | 2.1 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour | 3,628 | 2.3 | B | C+ | A | C |
| Saint-André-le-Gaz | 2,754 | 3.3 | — | B− | — | A |
| Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin | 7,698 | 3.6 | C+ | B | B− | B+ |
| La Tour-du-Pin | 8,111 | 3.7 | C− | C+ | C− | B− |
| Aoste | 2,876 | 5 | B+ | C+ | A− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Faverges-de-la-Tour has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 5 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Faverges-de-la-Tour grades C for cost of living.
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.