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With 1,163 residents, it is a town in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Saint-Jean-la-Bussière’s schools beat most: bac results at the expected rate; brevet results 3.3 points above the expected rate. Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Where it falls short is walkability (C+) — just over a quarter of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 11% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes go for a median €1,984/m².
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Saint-Jean-la-Bussière 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 one thing Saint-Jean-la-Bussière does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Jean-la-Bussière 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.
Saint-Jean-la-Bussière has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Jean-la-Bussière as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Voie romaine, in Thizy-les-Bourgs, 5.4 mi away.
23% 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 Saint-Jean-la-Bussière.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
97.0% of candidates passed the bac at the lycées within 5 km of Saint-Jean-la-Bussière, above Rhône’s towns (92.5%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The nearest collège is 1.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Eugénie de PomeyNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 61 | 92%+2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent François MansartNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 69 | 97%±0 pts |
| Collège Saint-Viateur PrivateBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 102 | 95%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €9.26/m² a month. The sales split: 97% houses, the rest apartments. Saint-Jean-la-Bussière recorded 30 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 62 residents of Saint-Jean-la-Bussière died, against 79 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 22% fewer. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 78 per 100 expected, near Rhône’s towns (76) and lower than compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Saint-Jean-la-Bussière is Hopitaux Nord Ouest de Tarare, 9 mi away. In Rhône, women can expect to live 87.1 years and men 81.9 (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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are one in ten residents, below Rhône’s towns (11%) and close to compared French towns (11%). Children are a fifth of the town. The 65-and-over age group makes up 19% of residents.
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Jean-la-Bussière | Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 41% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Half of residents lived on more than €26,980 a year per consumption unit, lower than Rhône’s towns (€30,220) and near compared French towns (€25,970). Saint-Jean-la-Bussière holds 250 jobs; 550 of its residents are in work, so 0.5 jobs each.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Saint-Jean-la-Bussière was other physical violence (2025). The 2025 count: 27 offenses here. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 16.5 cases of violence against people and 14.9 graded property crimes (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 family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 30.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Saint-Jean-la-Bussière. Best known first.
MuseumMusée Barthélemy-Thimonnier2.6 km south, in AmplepuisChâteauChâteauChâteau de Sarron4.9 km southwest, in FourneauxChâteauChâteauChâteau de Ronno4.6 km east, in RonnoMuseumMuseumÉcomusée du Haut-Beaujolais4.8 km north, in Thizy-les-BourgsPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Saint-Jean-la-Bussière 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 Saint-Jean-la-Bussière 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-la-Bussière | 1,163 | — | — | A− | — | A− |
| Amplepuis | 4,876 | 1.6 | A− | A | C | B− |
| Thizy-les-Bourgs | 5,771 | 3 | A− | A+ | C+ | B |
| Cours | 4,306 | 7.2 | A− | A+ | B− | C+ |
| Tarare | 10,893 | 8.7 | B+ | B+ | C | B+ |
| Vindry-sur-Turdine | 5,305 | 11 | A | C | B+ | A− |
| Le Coteau Loire | 6,845 | 12 | A | A− | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Jean-la-Bussière has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A−, better than 78% of compared French towns. 97% of 69 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent François Mansart 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 higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Jean-la-Bussière grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Jean-la-Bussière is a commune of 1,163 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Ouest Rhodanien. 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 9, 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.