Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,346 in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Sablons has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (B): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% 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 Sablons 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 Sablons as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Pierre, in Champagne, 3.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sablons.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That is the middle of 67 sales of houses and apartments in Sablons from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €2,716/m² for the median of compared towns in Isère.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,388/m² | 61 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Sablons comes below both Isère’s towns (33%) and compared French towns (30%). Under-15s account for 19% of the population.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Sablons | Isère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 33% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Isère median and France median: the median of compared communes
For Sablons, that is below both Isère’s towns (14.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Sablons has 400 jobs for 1,100 working residents, 0.4 per worker. 7.8% of the labour force are out of work.
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, 156 residents of Sablons died, against 182 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% fewer. 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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
100.0% of candidates passed the bac at the lycées within 5 km of Sablons, above both Isère’s towns (93.7%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean FerratNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 157 | 78%−10 pts |
| Lycée professionnel privé François Verguin PrivateNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 22 | 100%+15 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 40 offenses in the graded categories in Sablons in 2025. For family violence, sexual violence 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, 17.5% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Sablons. Best known first.
Nothing in Sablons is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Sablons.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sablons | 2,346 | — | — | C | B− | B |
| Chanas | 2,706 | 2.2 | C− | C+ | C | B− |
| Salaise-sur-Sanne | 4,606 | 2.6 | C− | C+ | D | B |
| Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Drôme | 7,001 | 3.1 | D | B | D | C |
| Le Péage-de-Roussillon | 6,718 | 3.8 | C− | B− | D− | B− |
| Roussillon | 8,595 | 3.8 | C− | B− | C− | B− |
| Saint-Maurice-l'Exil | 6,889 | 4.9 | C | C+ | C+ | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 12 burglaries and 17 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.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.36/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Sablons grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Sablons is a commune of 2,346 people in the Communauté de communes Entre Bièvre et Rhône. 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.