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A town of 1,312 in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Revel has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 35% 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 Revel 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 Revel as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Prieuré (ruines de l'ancien), in Domène, 2.4 mi away.
18% 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 Revel.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. From 2016 to 2025, 56 residents of Revel died, against 87 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 35% fewer. For a family doctor, residents of Revel have one GP on hand.
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.
At the census, 9.2% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Isère’s towns (14.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. 3.8% of people in the labour force have no job. Revel holds 150 jobs; 650 of its residents are in work, so 0.2 jobs each.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group: 9.9%, below Isère’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Those 65 and older account for nearly a fifth of residents. Half the people of Revel are older than 47.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Revel | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 34% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 7.5% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 17% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 12% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 62% | 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 2.5 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège la MoulinièreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 143 | 92%−3 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.
Renting a house costs an estimated €10.85/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 21 homes in Revel.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Of the graded crimes in Revel, burglary came up most often (2025). In 2025, 21 offenses were recorded in the town. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.5 violent offenses and 15 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, vehicle theft 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, 43.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Revel 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 Revel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revel | 1,312 | — | — | B− | — | A+ |
| Domène | 6,835 | 2.2 | B | C− | C | A− |
| Le Versoud | 4,900 | 2.3 | A+ | C | A | A |
| Saint-Martin-d'Uriage | 5,587 | 2.8 | A− | C− | B+ | A+ |
| Villard-Bonnot | 7,509 | 4.1 | A− | B− | B− | C+ |
| Gières | 7,376 | 4.2 | C+ | D | D− | A |
| Montbonnot-Saint-Martin | 5,698 | 4.3 | B+ | D | C+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Revel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 15 burglaries and 6 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 56% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Revel is a commune of 1,312 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) · 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.