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Home to 2,412 people, this town lies in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Health is its strong suit — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 50% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It also does well on jobs & income: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 5.4% unemployment. Homes are dear (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 11.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The median home sells for €4,374/m².
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Sathonay-Village 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 3 things Sathonay-Village does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Sathonay-Village 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.
Sathonay-Village 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 Sathonay-Village as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine de la Guerrière, in Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or, 2.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Sathonay-Village. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sathonay-Village.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Rhône live to 87.1 on average and men to 81.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 158 residents of Sathonay-Village died, against 226 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 30% fewer. Also worth knowing: 2 GPs practise here.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €15.17/m² a month, near Rhône’s towns (€14.83/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Estimated advertised rent for houses: €13.84/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 65 homes were sold in Sathonay-Village.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,632/m² | 47 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
5.4% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Rhône’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 19.8% of commuters travelled at the census.
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.
A collège lies 1.4 mi away. At the four general lycées, 96% of 764 candidates passed the bac, 0.6 points above the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean de TournesNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 146 | 86%−5 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Charles PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 57 | 98%±0 pts |
| Collège Maria CasarèsBest against expectations: 9 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 125 | 88%+9 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Children are 20% of the town. Half of Sathonay-Village is older than 45, half younger. A fifth of residents are 65 or over.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Sathonay-Village | Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.1% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 16% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 57% | 41% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Over 2025, Sathonay-Village logged 11 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10.3 (2023–2025 average). The commonest graded crime here was burglary (2025).
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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 36.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Sathonay-Village is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Sathonay-Village as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sathonay-Village | 2,412 | — | — | D | — | A+ |
| Cailloux-sur-Fontaines | 2,989 | 0.9 | — | D | — | A+ |
| Sathonay-Camp | 7,019 | 1.1 | B− | D | B− | B+ |
| Fontaines-sur-Saône | 6,957 | 1.2 | B | D | C+ | A |
| Fontaines-Saint-Martin | 3,098 | 1.3 | — | D | — | A |
| Rillieux-la-Pape | 31,389 | 1.7 | D | D | C− | B |
| Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or | 4,669 | 2.1 | B | D | C | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Sathonay-Village has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 5 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 63% of compared French towns. 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 higher than in most compared French towns, so Sathonay-Village grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Sathonay-Village is a commune of 2,412 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.