Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 6,144 in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Jonage grades B overall: better than 61% of compared French towns, and #57 of 107 in Rhône. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is jobs & income (A+): 1.4 jobs per working resident; 6.4% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Jonage does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Jonage 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 Jonage as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhir de Montaberlet ou de Pierre-Fitte, in Décines-Charpieu, 5.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Jonage.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That is the middle of 137 sales of houses and apartments in Jonage from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €3,666/m² for the median of compared towns in Rhône.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,846/m² | 114 |
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.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Jonage records 70 deaths per 100 expected, below both Rhône’s towns (76) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 346 residents of Jonage died, against 494 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 30% 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
For Jonage, that is above both Rhône’s towns (€30,220) and compared French towns (€25,970). Unemployment stands at 6.4%.
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.
Jonage sits below both Rhône’s towns (91.9%) and compared French towns (87.5%) on this measure.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Olivier de SerresNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 154 | 86%±0 pts |
| Collège Évariste GaloisBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 153 | 88%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 115 offenses in the graded categories in Jonage in 2025. For other physical violence and sexual violence, 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, 3.7% of the index here. With 3,900 jobs for 2,850 working residents, Jonage draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
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
12% of residents are 15 to 24 and 22% are 65 or over, against 11% and 19% in the median compared commune of Rhône. 41% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Rhône 41%, France 30%).
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Jonage | Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 41% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Jonage is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Jonage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonage | 6,144 | — | B | D | C+ | A |
| Meyzieu | 36,687 | 2.7 | C | D | C− | A− |
| Pusignan | 4,119 | 2.7 | B− | C− | C− | B+ |
| La Boisse Ain | 3,449 | 3.4 | A | C− | A | A |
| Villette-d'Anthon Isère | 5,268 | 3.4 | B+ | D | B | A |
| Beynost Ain | 5,198 | 3.6 | B+ | C | C | A |
| Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4,332 | 4 | A− | C+ | B− | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #46 of 107 in Rhône. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 22 burglaries and 34 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 38% of compared French towns and #79 of 115 in Rhône. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €15.68/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Jonage grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Jonage is a commune of 6,144 people in the Métropole de Lyon. 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.