Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It skews young: only 10% of residents are 65 or over. The town has 2,613 residents and lies in Calvados, Normandy.
Bourguébus’s strongest is safety (A): an average of 5.7 recorded violent incidents and 6.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. The town’s overall grade, B+, puts it better than 73% of compared French towns. The ranking puts it #11 of 46 in Calvados. It also does well on jobs & income — 1 job per working resident; 5.7% unemployment. Buying in is costly (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is weaker too: 5% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for schools and B− for health.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Bourguébus does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bourguébus 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 Bourguébus as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-André, in Ifs, 2.5 mi away.
0.2% 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 Bourguébus.
People 65 and over make up a tenth of the town. Degrees are held by 38% of adults, above both Calvados’ towns (26%) and compared French towns (30%). Half the people of Bourguébus are older than 34.6.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Bourguébus | Calvados median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 27% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 31% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 9.8% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Calvados median and France median: the median of compared communes
In 2025, 18 offenses were recorded in Bourguébus. The commonest graded crime locally was family violence (2025). Police and gendarmerie recorded 18 offenses in the graded categories locally in 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 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, 24.1% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Bourguébus recorded 59 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses were 76% of what sold. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €10.70/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,522/m² | 45 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 5.2% of commuters at the census. 1,350 jobs are based in Bourguébus, for 1,300 working residents (1 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €26,620 a year per consumption unit, above Calvados’ towns (€24,235) and close to compared French towns (€25,970).
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.
General-bac pupils go 3.7 mi to the nearest lycée. The closest collège is 2.5 mi off. Results rank its schools #17 of 50 in Calvados.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Léopold Sédar SenghorNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 172 | 89%−2 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.
Its care home for older people (55 places) counts its residents as Bourguébus’; allowing for it, deaths were 12% below expected. 176 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 134: 31% above. Women in Calvados live to 85.5 on average and men to 78.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. This Calvados town has one family doctor.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Other places to visit, heritage and family days out in and near Bourguébus. Best known first.
Nothing in Bourguébus is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bourguébus yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourguébus | 2,613 | — | B+ | C | A | B− |
| Ifs | 11,937 | 2.9 | B− | C− | C+ | A− |
| Cormelles-le-Royal | 5,377 | 2.9 | B | C− | A− | B− |
| Saint-Martin-de-May | 4,529 | 3.4 | B+ | C+ | A+ | B+ |
| Mondeville | 10,331 | 3.7 | D | C− | C− | C |
| Fleury-sur-Orne | 5,941 | 3.9 | C | D | B− | B+ |
| Giberville | 5,077 | 4.3 | C+ | C | B | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #4 of 46 in Calvados.
They grade B−, better than 48% of compared French towns and #17 of 50 in Calvados. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.32/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bourguébus grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Calvados, Normandy
Bourguébus is a commune of 2,613 people in the Communauté urbaine Caen la Mer. 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.