Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,078 in Ardennes, Grand Est.
Blagny has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D−): 0.6 jobs per working resident; 13.9% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Blagny does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Blagny 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 Blagny as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame, in Carignan, 1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Blagny.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Homes sold for a median €1,073/m², lower than both Ardennes’ towns (€1,185/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Sales in Blagny from July 2023 to June 2026: 52 houses and apartments. Houses made up 96% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,130/m² | 50 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 9.5 mi to the nearest lycée. The nearest collège is 0.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jeanne MélinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 69 | 83%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted mortality in Blagny: 100 deaths for every 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 120 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 120, about as many. The nearest emergency department to Blagny is Centre hospitalier de Sedan, 12.4 mi away. In Ardennes, women can expect to live 84.6 years and men 77.7 (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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
27% of residents are 65 or over. Children under 15 make up 15%, below Ardennes’ towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Those aged 15 to 24 account for 9.1% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ardennes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Blagny | Ardennes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 13% | 17% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardennes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €22,310 a year. 13.9% of the labour force were unemployed, below Ardennes’ towns (18.5%) but above compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 3.3% of Blagny’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 3.9 cases of violence against people and 11.9 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Recorded offenses in Blagny came to 10 in 2025. The graded crime recorded most in the town 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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 44.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Blagny is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Blagny.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blagny | 1,078 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Carignan | 2,680 | 1.1 | C | A+ | C+ | D |
| Sedan | 16,667 | 12 | D | A | D | D |
| Vrigne aux Bois | 3,518 | 17 | C+ | B | B+ | D− |
| Vivier-au-Court | 2,732 | 18 | — | B | — | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Blagny has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 20% 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 Blagny grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ardennes, Grand Est
Blagny is a commune of 1,078 people in the Communauté de communes des Portes du Luxembourg. 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.