Find your town in Aube
Aube has 431 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 20 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 28 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Aube is like
The median ranked town in Aube grades highest on walkability and cost of living against towns across France, and lowest on schools. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
1 of 20 (5%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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20 towns · ordered by Aube rank
3 of these towns have a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of their index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
411 smaller towns and villages in Aube
With the 20 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 431 communes of Aube, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
383 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Aube
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Aube
What is the best place to live in Aube?
Saint-Lyé ranks first of 20 graded towns of 2,500 or more: safety (A) and health (A−) are its strongest grades; walkability (D) is its lowest. Les Noës-près-Troyes and Brienne-le-Château follow.
How do the biggest towns in Aube grade?
Troyes (62,088 people) grades D overall, with its best grade in walkability. Romilly-sur-Seine (14,959 people) grades C− overall, with its best grade in walkability.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Aube, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Aube on TownRatings?
Yes: all 431 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 20 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 28 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 383 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Photos: Saint-Lyé, G.Garitan (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Les Noës-près-Troyes, Hg marigny (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Brienne-le-Château, Hg marigny (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Bar-sur-Aube, Marc Ryckaert (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Rosières-près-Troyes, Hg marigny (CC BY-SA 3.0) · La Rivière-de-Corps, Zivax (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis, Gamut (Public domain) · Bréviandes, Chabe01 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-André-les-Vergers, Yzergues (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sainte-Savine, Saveurs France JLD (CC BY 4.0) · Arcis-sur-Aube, Patachonf (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres, Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain) · Villenauxe-la-Grande, Pline (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Pont-Sainte-Marie, Chabe01 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Julien-les-Villas, Arpentage général des biens de la commanderie de Troyes du … (Public domain) · Nogent-sur-Seine, AntonyB (CC BY-SA 4.0) · La Chapelle-Saint-Luc, NB80 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Bar-sur-Seine, AirScott (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Romilly-sur-Seine, La ville a commandé cette photographie a un professionnel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Troyes, KBWEi at German Wikipedia ( Original text: KBWEi 21:50, 14.… (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.