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1,038 people call this town in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes home.
Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 34% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Households here earn well (A−): 0.2 jobs per working resident; 5.1% unemployment. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (C−). It lags on cost of living as well (C) — A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is nearly two fifths of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Montagnole 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.
Each subject compares Montagnole 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.
Montagnole has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Montagnole does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Montagnole as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Maison des Charmettes, in Chambéry, 1.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Montagnole is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montagnole.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 94 deaths in Montagnole from 2016 to 2025; there were 62, 34% fewer. Women in Savoie live to 86.6 on average and men to 81.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Montagnole is Centre hospitalier Metropole Savoie site Chambery Mco, 2.1 mi away.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Unemployment stood at 5.1%, lower than both Savoie’s towns (7.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Walking, cycling and public transport carried nearly one in ten commuters at the census. At the census, 2.6% of working residents in Montagnole didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
House rents are put at about €14.97/m² a month. The market in Montagnole: 27 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses accounted for 74% of sales, apartments for the rest.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 91% passed the bac pro, of 278 candidates at 4 lycées. At the lycées within 5 km of Montagnole, 95.5% passed the bac, near Savoie’s towns (94.3%) and higher than compared French towns (92.9%). For collège, the closest is 2.3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Henry BordeauxNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 105 | 95%+1 pt |
| Lycée général et technologique VaugelasNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 353 | 99%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel privé Sainte-Geneviève - Assomption Chambéry PrivateBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 81 | 96%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
7.9% of residents are 15 to 24, lower than both Savoie’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). Line up the people of Montagnole by age and the one in the middle is 46.2.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Savoie 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Montagnole | Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.3% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 49% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people ran at 5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.6 (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes in Montagnole, the most frequent was other physical violence (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 · For family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Montagnole. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry3.8 km north, in Chambéry
MuseumLes Charmettes2.6 km northeast, in Chambéry
MuseumMuséum d'histoire naturelle de Chambéry3.3 km north, in ChambéryAttractionAttractionChâteau des ducs de Savoie3.4 km north, in ChambéryMuseumMuseumMusée savoisien3.6 km north, in ChambéryPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Montagnole yet.
Commune in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Montagnole is a commune of 1,038 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Chambéry. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montagnole | 1,038 | — | — | C | — | A+ |
| Jacob-Bellecombette | 4,499 | 1.4 | B− | D | A+ | C+ |
| Cognin | 6,954 | 2 | C | D | C | B+ |
| Saint-Baldoph | 2,949 | 2 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Barberaz | 5,306 | 2.6 | B− | D | C+ | A− |
| Chambéry | 59,964 | 2.9 | C− | D | D | B |
| La Ravoire | 9,332 | 3.1 | B | D | B− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montagnole has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 46% of compared French towns. 99% of 353 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Vaugelas in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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.