Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,110 in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Aveize has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 1% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% 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 48% 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 Aveize 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Aveize as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Symphorien, in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, 3.6 mi away.
29% 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 Aveize.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Aveize sits below both Rhône’s towns (76) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 44 residents of Aveize died, against 85 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 48% fewer. 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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Aveize above both Rhône’s towns (91.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du Val d'ArgentNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 73 | 99%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On this, Aveize is below both Rhône’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Aveize has 450 jobs for 500 working residents, 0.9 per worker. 3.9% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In the comparison, Aveize comes below both Rhône’s towns (€14.83/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Aveize, that is below both Rhône’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 19% of residents.
47% women, 53% men
About 113 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Aveize | Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 41% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 0 offenses in the graded categories in Aveize in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% 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
Heritage and museums in and near Aveize. Best known first.
Nothing in Aveize 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 Aveize 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aveize | 1,110 | — | — | A | — | A+ |
| Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise | 3,785 | 3.5 | A+ | B | B+ | B− |
| Saint-Martin-en-Haut | 3,942 | 4.5 | A+ | C+ | B | A+ |
| Chazelles-sur-Lyon Loire | 5,543 | 5 | A+ | A− | A | B+ |
| Thurins | 3,404 | 8.2 | A+ | C− | A | A |
| Saint-Galmier Loire | 5,829 | 9.7 | A− | C+ | A | C− |
| Vaugneray | 6,304 | 9.7 | A | C− | A− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Aveize has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 6 recorded violent incidents and 7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 98% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Aveize is a commune of 1,110 people in the Communauté de communes des Monts du Lyonnais. 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.