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The town has 31,389 residents and lies in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
A tough set of grades. Homes are dear: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It lags on jobs & income as well: 1 job per working resident; 15.8% unemployment. Its strongest subject is walkability: 96% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 30% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Put together, the subjects come to a D overall, better than 11% of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #101 of 107 in Rhône.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Rillieux-la-Pape does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Rillieux-la-Pape 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Rillieux-la-Pape as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame, sur l'île Barbe, in Lyon, 3.3 mi away.
1.9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Rillieux-la-Pape. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Rillieux-la-Pape.
15.8% of the labour force were unemployed, above Rhône’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. 11,450 jobs are based in Rillieux-la-Pape, for 11,400 working residents (1 per worker). Bus, tram or train carried just over a fifth of working residents in Rillieux-la-Pape to work 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 Rillieux-la-Pape, houses go for €3,936/m² and apartments for €2,597/m². The estimated advertised rent is €15.29/m² a month, near Rhône’s towns (€14.83/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Sales locally from July 2023 to June 2026: 622 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,936/m² | 218 |
| Apartments | €2,597/m² | 404 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Rillieux-la-Pape was criminal damage (2025). Over 2025, Rillieux-la-Pape logged 1,076 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 10.5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 20.7 (2023–2025 average).
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 · For armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 0.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
29% of adults hold a degree, below Rhône’s towns (41%) and close to compared French towns (30%). Aged 15 to 24: 13% of residents. Over-65s are 17% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Rillieux-la-Pape | Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 41% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 83% passed the bac pro, of 434 candidates at 6 lycées. The bac pass rate near Rillieux-la-Pape is 84.1%, lower than both Rhône’s towns (92.5%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Its schools’ results rank #83 of 115 in Rhône.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Charles PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 126 | 99%+3 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Charles PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 57 | 98%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel les CanutsBest against expectations: 11 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 88 | 89%+11 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.
Rillieux-la-Pape has 32 family doctors. Life expectancy at birth in Rhône is 87.1 years for women and 81.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 2,183 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 2,391: 9% below.
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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
Nothing in Rillieux-la-Pape is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
14 notable people were born in Rillieux-la-Pape.
Loïc Rémy: CFCUnofficial (Chelsea Debs), CC BY-SA 2.0 · Hervé Della Maggiore: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Virginie Girod: George2etexte, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Adeline Baldacchino: Librairie Mollat, CC BY 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rillieux-la-Pape | 31,389 | — | D | D | C− | B |
| Sathonay-Camp | 7,019 | 1.2 | B− | D | B− | B+ |
| Fontaines-sur-Saône | 6,957 | 2.1 | B | D | C+ | A |
| Cailloux-sur-Fontaines | 2,989 | 2.6 | — | D | — | A+ |
| Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or | 4,669 | 2.6 | B | D | C | A |
| Fontaines-Saint-Martin | 3,098 | 2.7 | — | D | — | A |
| Miribel Ain | 10,395 | 2.7 | B+ | C− | C− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety, #84 of 107 in Rhône. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 67 burglaries and 485 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 35% of compared French towns and #83 of 115 in Rhône. 98% of 57 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Saint-Charles in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Rillieux-la-Pape grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Rillieux-la-Pape is a commune of 31,389 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 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.