Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 1,344 people, lies in Ardennes, Grand Est.
Signy-l'Abbaye’s strongest is cost of living (A+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is easy to get around without a car (A): 87% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes lag: 1.2 jobs per working resident; 18.8% unemployment. Health is weaker too (C−).
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 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Signy-l'Abbaye 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 2 things Signy-l'Abbaye does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Signy-l'Abbaye 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.
Signy-l'Abbaye 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 Signy-l'Abbaye as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Calvaire, sur le terre-plein, devant l'église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, in Jandun, 6.8 mi away.
34% 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 Signy-l'Abbaye.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €746/m², lower than both Ardennes’ towns (€1,185/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). From July 2023 to June 2026, 42 homes were sold in Signy-l'Abbaye.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €746/m² | 42 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nearly a fifth of people in the labour force have no job. Half of residents lived on more than €21,790 a year per consumption unit, close to Ardennes’ towns (€21,390) and below compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 7.8% of working residents in Signy-l'Abbaye 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.
297 deaths in Signy-l'Abbaye between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 209: 42% above. Adjusted mortality here: 100 deaths for every 100 expected. The nearest emergency department to Signy-l'Abbaye is Centre hospitalier de Rethel, 13.2 mi away. The town has 2 family doctors.
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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 12.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Signy l'Abbaye-Chaumont PorcienNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 66 | 85%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Among adults, 19% have a degree. People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above both Ardennes’ towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). The median resident of Signy-l'Abbaye is 47.7 years old.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardennes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Signy-l'Abbaye | Ardennes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 17% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardennes median and France median: the median of compared communes
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3.1 violent offenses and 13.1 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In 2025, 13 offenses were recorded in Signy-l'Abbaye. Also worth knowing: the commonest graded crime here 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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, 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, 29.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Signy-l'Abbaye is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Signy-l'Abbaye.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signy-l'Abbaye | 1,344 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Rethel | 7,444 | 13 | C− | A− | D | C+ |
| Charleville-Mézières | 45,560 | 14 | D | B+ | D | D |
| Villers-Semeuse | 3,615 | 15 | B | B+ | B | C+ |
| Nouzonville | 5,523 | 17 | B− | A+ | B− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Signy-l'Abbaye has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 30% 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 Signy-l'Abbaye grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ardennes, Grand Est
Signy-l'Abbaye is a commune of 1,344 people in the Communauté de communes des Crêtes Préardennaises. 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.