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Home to 3,498 people, this town lies in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Buying in is costly (D−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 19.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Les Belleville grades C− overall, better than 20% of compared French towns. It lags on safety as well — an average of 18.8 recorded violent incidents and 17.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Its best grade is for jobs & income — 1.5 jobs per working resident; 1.7% unemployment. Walkability is another plus (B+) — 30% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 36% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior).
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 Les Belleville does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Les Belleville 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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On the Culture ministry’s list, Les Belleville counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1944.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Les Belleville.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €14.69/m² a month, close to Savoie’s towns (€14.73/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). No town in Savoie costs more to buy into than Les Belleville, at €7,391/m², the highest of 37. Apartments in Les Belleville sell for €7,494/m², houses for €5,641/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €5,641/m² | 92 |
| Apartments | €7,494/m² | 793 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Les Belleville show 147 offenses in 2025. No compared town in Savoie has more graded crime per resident than Les Belleville: it ranks last of 32. Jobs outnumber working residents in Les Belleville (3,100 to 2,050): it draws people in from around. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in the town.
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, 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, 4.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
Degrees are held by 37% of adults. The 15-to-24 age group: 9%, below Savoie’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Les Belleville has a median age of 42.4.
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Savoie 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Les Belleville | Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
36.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, higher than both Savoie’s towns (19.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%). The median disposable income is €30,160 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 7.1% of working residents in Les Belleville didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 17th century. Among the classé monuments in Les Belleville is Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Vie. Homes built before 1919 account for 5.4% of the housing.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
6 GPs practise in Les Belleville. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 89 per 100 expected, higher than Savoie’s towns (86) and near compared French towns (88). 186 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 208: 11% below. Life expectancy at birth in Savoie is 86.6 years for women and 81.2 for men (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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Family days out, museums and other places to visit in and near Les Belleville. Best known first.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Les Belleville counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Vie: Photo: Simon Strueux · CC0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Les Belleville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Belleville | 3,498 | — | C− | D− | D | B− |
| Moûtiers | 3,487 | 7.6 | C | B | D | D− |
| Grand-Aigueblanche | 3,780 | 9.1 | A− | C− | A | B− |
| Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | 7,524 | 11 | B− | C+ | B+ | C |
| La Léchère | 2,538 | 11 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Aime-la-Plagne | 4,385 | 13 | A | C− | A+ | B− |
| Modane | 2,849 | 14 | — | B− | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 56 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Les Belleville grades D− for cost of living.
Commune in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Les Belleville is a commune of 3,498 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur de Tarentaise. 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.