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2,433 people call this town in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
Plateau-des-Petites-Roches’s best grade is for schools: brevet results at the expected rate. At €3,291/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 7.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan. Where it falls short is walkability (C+): 34% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The rest of its grades are middling: B for health and B− for jobs & income.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Plateau-des-Petites-Roches 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 3 things Plateau-des-Petites-Roches does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plateau-des-Petites-Roches 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.
Plateau-des-Petites-Roches 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 Plateau-des-Petites-Roches as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Pont de la Dame, in Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, 4.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plateau-des-Petites-Roches.
13% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Isère’s towns (21%) and compared French towns (22%). The share of residents under 15 is 23%. Aged 15 to 24: 8% of residents.
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Plateau-des-Petites-Roches | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 13% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 5.4% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 15% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 13% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 64% | 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.
A collège lies 2.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Simone de BeauvoirNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 125 | 94%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
300 jobs are based in Plateau-des-Petites-Roches, for 1,200 working residents (0.3 per worker). 7.9% of the labour force were unemployed, about level with Isère’s towns (8.1%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 4.3% of Plateau-des-Petites-Roches’ working residents to work at the census.
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.
102 deaths in Plateau-des-Petites-Roches between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 120: 15% below. The nearest emergency department to Plateau-des-Petites-Roches is Antenne Smur Aerodrome Versoud Chu de Grenoble Alpes, 7.6 mi away. Women in Isère live to 86.8 on average and men to 81.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 3 GPs practise locally.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
63 sales of houses and apartments in Plateau-des-Petites-Roches, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €3,291/m². A house rents for an estimated €13.07/m² a month. Houses made up just over three quarters of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,430/m² | 48 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3.4 violent offenses and 13.8 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. 41 offenses were reported in Plateau-des-Petites-Roches during 2025. More of the graded crimes here were burglary than anything else (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, 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, 32.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Plateau-des-Petites-Roches. Best known first.
Nothing in Plateau-des-Petites-Roches 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 Plateau-des-Petites-Roches 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plateau-des-Petites-Roches | 2,433 | — | — | C+ | — | B |
| Crolles | 8,609 | 1.9 | A− | C− | C− | A− |
| Bernin | 3,334 | 3 | A | C− | B | A |
| Froges | 3,285 | 3.4 | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes | 3,016 | 4.2 | A | C− | A− | A |
| Villard-Bonnot | 7,509 | 4.5 | A− | B− | B− | C+ |
| Le Touvet | 3,116 | 4.6 | A− | C | B | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Plateau-des-Petites-Roches has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 26 burglaries and 15 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 79% of compared French towns. 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 €3,291/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.79/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Plateau-des-Petites-Roches grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Plateau-des-Petites-Roches is a commune of 2,433 people in the Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan. 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 November 9, 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.