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A town in Aisne, Hauts-de-France, home to 2,472 people.
Anizy-le-Grand’s best grade is for cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: 73% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes lag: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 15.0% unemployment. Schools lag: brevet results 4 points below the expected rate.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Anizy-le-Grand 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 Anizy-le-Grand does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Anizy-le-Grand 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.
Anizy-le-Grand 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 Anizy-le-Grand as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye, in Prémontré, 3.2 mi away.
3.3% 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 Anizy-le-Grand.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The brevet pass rate near Anizy-le-Grand is 83.0%, about level with Aisne’s towns (83.6%) and below compared French towns (87.5%). The nearest general lycée is 7.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Louis SandrasNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 106 | 83%−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.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.06/m² a month, near Aisne’s towns (€10.23/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Sales in Anizy-le-Grand from July 2023 to June 2026: 73 houses and apartments. Renting a house costs an estimated €8.19/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,403/m² | 73 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €23,090 a year. Unemployment stood at 15.0%, between Aisne’s towns (20.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 4.9% of Anizy-le-Grand’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Anizy-le-Grand can choose among 4 GPs. The nearest emergency department to Anizy-le-Grand is Ch Laon, 7.9 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 218 residents of Anizy-le-Grand died, against 234 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 7% fewer. Women in Aisne live to 83.2 on average and men to 77.4 (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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B.
People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, near Aisne’s towns (12%) and higher than compared French towns (11%). One measure of family life: 17% of residents are under 15.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aisne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Anizy-le-Grand | Aisne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 31% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 18% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Aisne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Over 2025, Anizy-le-Grand logged 37 recorded offenses. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 7.5 violent offenses and 13.1 graded property crimes a year. Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 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, 9.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Anizy-le-Grand is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Anizy-le-Grand.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anizy-le-Grand | 2,472 | — | — | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Laon | 24,220 | 8.5 | C− | B+ | D− | C− |
| Crouy | 3,049 | 8.8 | B− | B− | A− | C− |
| Villeneuve-Saint-Germain | 2,616 | 10 | B | B− | A− | C− |
| Soissons | 28,046 | 11 | C+ | C+ | C− | B |
| Athies-sous-Laon | 2,578 | 11 | A− | A− | A | C+ |
| La Fère | 2,796 | 11 | C− | A− | D− | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade C−, better than 16% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Anizy-le-Grand grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Aisne, Hauts-de-France
Anizy-le-Grand is a commune of 2,472 people in the Communauté de communes Picardie des Châteaux. 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.