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This town in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has a population of 2,365.
Households here earn well: 0.8 jobs per working resident; 5.6% unemployment. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: 52% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 16% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Cost of living is its weak spot: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for schools and B for health.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Noyarey 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 Noyarey does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Noyarey 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.
Noyarey 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 Noyarey as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix en pierre, in Sassenage, 2.9 mi away.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage and other places to visit in and near Noyarey. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Sassenage4.1 km southeast, in Sassenage
AttractionCuves de Sassenage4 km south, in SassenageChâteauChâteauChâteau Gachéin townChâteauChâteauChâteau Vial de Sablignyin townChâteauChâteauMaison Anthoardin townPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Noyarey.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Estimated advertised rent for houses: €12.54/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 81 homes in Noyarey. Houses were 69% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,125/m² | 56 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Of those in the labour force, 5.6% are unemployed. Bus, tram or train carried 7.1% of working residents in Noyarey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Noyarey (2025). 46 offenses were reported in Noyarey during 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 4 violent offenses and 14.2 graded property crimes a year.
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, sexual violence, armed robbery 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, 23.9% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest collège is 2.9 mi off. The bac pass rate near Noyarey is 94.0%, in line with Isère’s towns (93.7%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège BarnaveNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 175 | 86%−7 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Françoise DoltoNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 52 | 94%+10 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
2 GPs practise in Noyarey. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Noyarey’s; allowing for it, deaths were 14% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 281 residents of Noyarey died, against 241 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% more. Also worth knowing: in Isère, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.8 years for women and 81.6 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Children under 15 make up 18%, near Isère’s towns (18%) and higher than compared French towns (17%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 24% of residents. Graduates make up just over two in five adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Noyarey | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 33% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Isère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Noyarey is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Noyarey.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noyarey | 2,365 | — | — | C− | B+ | B |
| Fontanil-Cornillon | 3,404 | 1.7 | B | D | B | C− |
| Saint-Égrève | 17,986 | 2.6 | B− | C− | D | A− |
| Sassenage | 11,646 | 2.7 | B− | C | C | B |
| Voreppe | 9,922 | 3.2 | A | C | C | A |
| Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux | 6,078 | 4 | C+ | C− | D | A− |
| Fontaine | 22,020 | 4.3 | C | B− | D | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 26 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 60% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.83/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Noyarey grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Noyarey is a commune of 2,365 people in the Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole. 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.