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Some 2,026 people live in this town, in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Schools do well: brevet results 3 points above the expected rate. At the median price of €1,980/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Porte de Maurienne. Add walkability to its strengths (B+): 62% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes change hands at a median €1,980/m².
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Val-d'Arc 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 Val-d'Arc does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Val-d'Arc 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.
Val-d'Arc has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Val-d'Arc as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Miolans, in Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny, 6.3 mi away.
11% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage and museums in and near Val-d'Arc. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Val-d'Arc.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 9.8 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège la LauzièreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 64 | 94%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Jobs located in Val-d'Arc: 600, for 850 residents in work (0.7 each). Unemployment stands at 8.4%. Half of residents lived on more than €26,020 a year per consumption unit, lower than Savoie’s towns (€28,360) and near compared French towns (€25,970).
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.
The sales split: 72% houses, the rest apartments. A house rents for an estimated €13.01/m² a month. The market in Val-d'Arc: 50 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,383/m² | 36 |
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, 289 residents of Val-d'Arc died, against 261 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% more. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Val-d'Arc come to 82 per 100 predicted. The nearest emergency department to Val-d'Arc is Centre hospitalier D Albertville, 9.1 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Val-d'Arc can choose among 3 GPs.
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.
Children under 15 make up 18%, above Savoie’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Val-d'Arc has a median age of 44.1.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Savoie 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Val-d'Arc | Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
In 2025, other physical violence led the graded crimes in Val-d'Arc. Recorded offenses locally came to 33 in 2025. Violence against people averaged 8.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 4.9.
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, sexual violence, burglary, 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, 44.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Val-d'Arc is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
4 notable people were born in Val-d'Arc.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val-d'Arc | 2,026 | — | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny | 4,217 | 7.4 | A− | C+ | B | B |
| La Léchère | 2,538 | 8 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Gilly-sur-Isère | 3,149 | 8.3 | A− | D | A− | A |
| Mercury | 3,495 | 9.3 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Albertville | 19,978 | 9.4 | C− | C | C | C+ |
| Grand-Aigueblanche | 3,780 | 9.7 | A− | C− | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Val-d'Arc has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 90% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Val-d'Arc grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Val-d'Arc is a commune of 2,026 people in the Communauté de communes Porte de Maurienne. 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.