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A town of 1,788 in Aisne, Hauts-de-France.
Brasles has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 15.8% unemployment. At the median price of €1,912/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération de la Région de Château-Thierry. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 27% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Brasles does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Brasles 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Brasles as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Porte Saint-Pierre, in Château-Thierry, 0.6 mi away.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and gardens in and near Brasles. Best known first.
Art galleryMusée Jean-de-La-Fontaine1.4 km west, in Château-Thierry
MuseumHôtel-Dieu de Château-Thierry1 km west, in Château-Thierry
MuseumMaison de Jean de la Fontaine1.4 km west, in Château-ThierryFortFortPorte Saint-Jean1000 m west, in Château-ThierryFortFortPorte Saint-Pierre900 m west, in Château-ThierryPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Brasles.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Brasles is below both Aisne’s towns (110) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 459 residents of Brasles died, against 328 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 40% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Police and gendarmerie recorded 19 offenses in the graded categories in Brasles in 2025. Violence against people ran at 6.6 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.8 (2023–2025 average). For other physical violence, 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, 24.9% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
In the comparison, Brasles comes above both Aisne’s towns (17.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%). 15.8% of the labour force are out of work.
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.
For Brasles, that is below both Aisne’s towns (83.6%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean RacineNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 160 | 80%−4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jules VerneNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 111 | 94%−3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean de La FontaineBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateGeneral lycée | General lycée | 282 | 98%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Brasles sits above both Aisne’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%) on this measure. 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
55% women, 45% men
About 82 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aisne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Brasles | Aisne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 31% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 18% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Aisne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,912/m², comes from 37 sales of houses and apartments in Brasles from July 2023 to June 2026. The estimated advertised rent is €10.35/m² a month, close to Aisne’s towns (€10.23/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,914/m² | 36 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Brasles 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 Brasles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasles | 1,788 | — | — | B | A− | A |
| Château-Thierry | 15,097 | 1.1 | D | C+ | D | C− |
| Essômes-sur-Marne | 2,691 | 2.9 | C | C+ | A− | D |
| Charly-sur-Marne | 2,594 | 7.9 | B | B | A− | D |
| Dormans Marne | 2,890 | 10 | B | A− | B+ | D |
| Fère-en-Tardenois | 2,836 | 11 | C | B+ | C | C |
| Montmirail Marne | 3,535 | 13 | B− | A | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade C, better than 28% of compared French towns. 94% of 111 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Jules Verne in 2025, 3 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Brasles grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Aisne, Hauts-de-France
Brasles is a commune of 1,788 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de la Région de Château-Thierry. 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 October 30, 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.