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Some 1,896 people live in this town, in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 6.9% unemployment. Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Pupils here do less well than most: bac results 1.8 points below the expected rate; brevet results 8.4 points below the expected rate. Cost of living is weaker too — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Janneyrias 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 Janneyrias does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Janneyrias 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.
Janneyrias 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 Janneyrias as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Maurice, in Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans, 6.3 mi away.
13% 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 Janneyrias.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the vocational lycée within 5 km, 84% of 75 candidates passed the bac pro. Near Janneyrias, 91.5% of lycée candidates passed the bac, lower than both Isère’s towns (93.7%) and compared French towns (92.9%). The closest collège is 2.1 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Martin Luther KingNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 118 | 77%−4 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique La PléiadeNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 368 | 93%−3 pts |
| Lycée professionnel l'OdysséeBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 75 | 84%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €3,425/m², above Isère’s towns (€2,716/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Houses made up three fifths of the homes sold; apartments the rest. The market in Janneyrias: 40 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 20%, above Isère’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.9%. Janneyrias has a median age of 39.6.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Janneyrias | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 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.
86 deaths in Janneyrias between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 109: 21% below. The nearest emergency department to Janneyrias is Antenne Smur Bron Hospices Civils de Lyon, 8.7 mi away. One GP practises locally. In Isère, women can expect to live 86.8 years and men 81.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Of those in the labour force, 6.9% are unemployed. 6.7% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Isère’s towns (14.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 4 violent offenses and 15.8 graded property crimes a year. For 2025, the figures show 43 offenses in Janneyrias. The graded crime recorded most locally was vehicle theft (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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery 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, 34.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Janneyrias is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Janneyrias as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janneyrias | 1,896 | — | — | D | — | B+ |
| Charvieu-Chavagneux | 10,547 | 2.1 | D | C− | C+ | B− |
| Pusignan Rhône | 4,119 | 2.3 | B− | C− | C− | B+ |
| Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 2,874 | 2.5 | D | C | D− | C+ |
| Villette-d'Anthon | 5,268 | 2.6 | B+ | D | B | A |
| Pont-de-Chéruy | 6,302 | 3 | D | C | C− | B+ |
| Chavanoz | 5,126 | 3.5 | D | C− | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Janneyrias has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 7% of compared French towns. 93% of 368 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique La Pléiade in 2025, 3 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Janneyrias grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Janneyrias is a commune of 1,896 people in the Communauté de communes Lyon Saint Exupéry en 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
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.