Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,213 in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Bully has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 0.5 jobs per working resident; 5.2% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Bully does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bully 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 Bully as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Couvent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette, in Éveux, 3.3 mi away.
32% 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 Bully.
That puts Bully below both Rhône’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 20% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Bully | Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 41% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 50 offenses in the graded categories in Bully in 2025. For family violence and vehicle theft, 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, 23.6% 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,933/m², comes from 50 sales of houses and apartments in Bully from July 2023 to June 2026. A home here costs 6.7 years of the median income in Communauté de communes du Pays de l'Arbresle (CCPA). Advertised rents are estimated at €13.45/m² a month, below Rhône’s towns (€14.83/m²) but above compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,417/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On this, Bully is below both Rhône’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The median disposable income is €30,930 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
In the comparison, Bully comes above both Rhône’s towns (91.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège les Quatre VentsNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 134 | 91%−1 pt |
| Lycée Germaine TillionNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 279 | 97%−2 pts |
| Collège Champagnat PrivateBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 108 | 100%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 322 residents of Bully died, against 253 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 27% more. Its care home for older people (90 places) counts its residents as Bully’s; allowing for it, deaths were 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
Other places to visit and heritage in and near Bully. Best known first.
Nothing in Bully is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Bully.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bully | 2,213 | — | — | C+ | B | B− |
| L'Arbresle | 6,537 | 2.1 | A− | B | C+ | B |
| Sain-Bel | 2,566 | 3.2 | A | B+ | B | B− |
| Vindry-sur-Turdine | 5,305 | 4.5 | A | C | B+ | A− |
| Saint-Pierre-la-Palud | 2,616 | 4.9 | — | C+ | — | A+ |
| Lentilly | 6,623 | 5.1 | A− | C− | B | A |
| Lozanne | 3,182 | 5.1 | A | C | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 18 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 55% of compared French towns. 97% of 279 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Germaine Tillion in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bully grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bully is a commune of 2,213 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de l'Arbresle (CCPA). 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.