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A town of 1,846 in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Montferrat has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 48% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,435/m², a 70 m² home costs 6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Voironnais. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 41% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Montferrat 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Montferrat as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine de Longpra, in Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine, 2.6 mi away.
15% 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 Montferrat.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Isère is 86.8 years for women and 81.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 159 deaths in Montferrat between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 188: 15% below. There are 4 general practitioners here.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
The jobless rate is 7.6%. Montferrat holds 200 jobs; 800 of its residents are in work, so 0.3 jobs each. Also worth knowing: 4.3% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
60 sales of houses and apartments in Montferrat, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,435/m². For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €11.81/m² a month. Of the homes sold, 75% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,500/m² | 45 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 19%, above both Isère’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). 24% of residents are 65 or over. Montferrat has a median age of 43.7.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Montferrat | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 33% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Isère median and France median: the median of compared communes
In all, 29 offenses reached the police record in Montferrat in 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 5.9 violent offenses and 12.7 graded property crimes a year. The commonest graded crime here was burglary (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, 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, 34.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Montferrat. Best known first.
MuseumMusée archéologique du lac de Paladru2.5 km west, in Villages du Lac de PaladruChâteauChâteauChâteau de l'Etergne4 km southeast, in Saint-Geoire-en-ValdaineChâteauChâteauChâteau de la Rochette4.8 km southeast, in Saint-Geoire-en-ValdainePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Montferrat is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Montferrat.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montferrat | 1,846 | — | — | C+ | — | A+ |
| Villages du Lac de Paladru | 2,598 | 2.6 | B | C | B+ | A− |
| Les Abrets en Dauphiné | 6,850 | 3.9 | B | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| Chirens | 2,546 | 4.6 | — | B− | — | C− |
| Saint-André-le-Gaz | 2,754 | 5.2 | — | B− | — | A |
| Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin | 3,602 | 5.5 | C+ | B+ | D | B+ |
| Apprieu | 3,615 | 7.2 | A | C+ | A− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montferrat has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 10 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,435/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €13.27/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Montferrat grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Montferrat is a commune of 1,846 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Voironnais. 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.