Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 6,549 in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Rives grades C+ overall: better than 44% of compared French towns, and #58 of 96 in Isère. Its weakest subject is schools (D): brevet results 6 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €2,293/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.6 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 walkability (A−): 95% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Rives 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 Rives as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is maison Burgaud, in Tullins, 3.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Rives.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the collèges within 5 km of Rives, 83.0% passed the brevet, below both Isère’s towns (87.4%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Robert DesnosNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 158 | 83%−6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
13.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, close to both Isère’s towns (14.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Rives has 2,400 jobs for 2,900 working residents, 0.8 per worker.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 703 residents of Rives died, against 683 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 3% more. Its two care homes for older people (148 places) count their residents as Rives’; allowing for them, deaths were 16% below expected. The adjustment lowers most towns’ figures, so the comparison is what counts: the median of compared French towns is 12% below expected. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Police and gendarmerie recorded 130 offenses in the graded categories in Rives in 2025. For sexual violence, 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, 1.4% of the index here.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,293/m², comes from 248 sales of houses and apartments in Rives from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses in Rives sell for €2,445/m² and apartments for €2,234/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,445/m² | 95 |
| Apartments | €2,234/m² | 153 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
11% of residents are 15 to 24 and 22% are 65 or over, against 11% and 21% in the median compared commune of Isère. 28% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Isère 33%, France 30%).
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Rives | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 33% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Isère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and family days out in and near Rives. Best known first.
Nothing in Rives is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
5 notable people were born in Rives.
Raphaël Poirée: Götz A. Primke from Muenchen, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jean Perrot: identité, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Victor Blanchet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
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It grades C+ for safety, #43 of 96 in Isère. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 49 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 12% of compared French towns and #86 of 102 in Isère. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.30/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Rives grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Rives is a commune of 6,549 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.