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1,227 residents make their home in this town in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Jonzieux’s strongest is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. People here tend to be in good health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 18% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for jobs & income and B− for walkability. Second homes make up 10% of its housing.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Jonzieux 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 2 things Jonzieux does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Jonzieux 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.
Jonzieux 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 Jonzieux as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Unité d'habitation construite par Le Corbusier, in Firminy, 5.9 mi away.
24% 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 Jonzieux.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,884/m², below Loire’s towns (€2,075/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Houses accounted for 88% of sales, apartments for the rest. From July 2023 to June 2026, 34 homes were sold in Jonzieux.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,884/m² | 30 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
3 GPs practise in Jonzieux. Its care home for older people (50 places) counts its residents as Jonzieux’s; allowing for it, deaths were 18% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 197 residents of Jonzieux died, against 177 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% more. In Loire, women can expect to live 85.6 years and men 80.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
26% of residents are 65 or over. Degrees are held by 35% of adults, above both Loire’s towns (28%) and compared French towns (30%). Ages in Jonzieux split evenly at 45.4: half are older, half younger.
53% women, 47% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Jonzieux | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 35% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 7.3% of commuters at the census. Jobs based in Jonzieux number 150, against 550 residents in work (0.3 per worker). At the census, 2.6% of working residents in Jonzieux didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums and heritage in and near Jonzieux. Best known first.
Nothing in Jonzieux 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 Jonzieux 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonzieux | 1,227 | — | — | A | — | B+ |
| Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 4,239 | 3.1 | B+ | A− | A+ | C+ |
| Saint-Genest-Malifaux | 2,921 | 3.6 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Saint-Didier-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 3,523 | 4.2 | A+ | A | A+ | B |
| Le Chambon-Feugerolles | 12,314 | 5.7 | C+ | A− | C− | C |
| Firminy | 17,060 | 6.1 | B− | A | D | B |
| La Ricamarie | 8,039 | 6.1 | B+ | A | D | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Jonzieux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 5.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Jonzieux grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Jonzieux is a commune of 1,227 people in the Communauté de communes des Monts du Pilat. 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 4, 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.