Find your town in Réunion
Réunion has 24 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 24 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more.
What Réunion is like
The median ranked town in Réunion grades highest on walkability and safety against towns across France, and lowest on jobs & income. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
0 of 22 (0%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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22 towns · ordered by Réunion rank
3 of these towns have a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of their index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
Towns without an overall grade
Each has its page and the subject grades it has. In France an overall grade needs a Safety Grade, and five graded subjects in all.
Questions about Réunion
What is the best place to live in Réunion?
Sainte-Rose ranks first of 22 graded towns of 2,500 or more: schools (A+) and safety (A−) are its strongest grades; health (D−) is its lowest. Salazie and Sainte-Suzanne follow.
How do the biggest towns in Réunion grade?
Saint-Denis (155,634 people) grades D overall, with its best grade in walkability. Saint-Paul (108,088 people) grades D− overall, with its best grade in walkability.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Réunion, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Réunion on TownRatings?
Yes: all 24 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 24 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 0 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 0 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
The ranking covers towns of 2,500 or more with an overall grade. Entre-Deux and Saint-Philippe have no overall grade; their pages show the grades they have, and why.
Photos: Sainte-Rose, regulator974 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Salazie, B.navez (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Sainte-Suzanne, Pierreangy (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Les Avirons, B. Navez (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Saint-Joseph, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Les Trois-Bassins, Alexandre Dijoux (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Sainte-Marie, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Denis, Thierry Caro (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Le Tampon, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · La Plaine-des-Palmistes, Pradigue (CC BY-SA 4.0) · La Possession, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Petite-Île, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Bras-Panon, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · L'Étang-Salé, Tonton Bernardo (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Le Port, Ville du Port (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Pierre, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Benoît, JessydeVilly (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Leu, Regulator (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Saint-Paul, JessydeVilly (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Cilaos, B.navez (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Saint-André, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY 4.0) · Saint-Louis, Clémenceau Lauret (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.