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A town of 2,066 in Calvados, Normandy.
Cagny has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 7 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €2,215/m², a 70 m² home costs 6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Val ès Dunes. Its strongest is walkability (B): 84% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Cagny 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.
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Cagny has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 11th century; the first monument here was protected in 1913.
0.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cagny.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 4.4 mi to the nearest lycée. The closest collège is 2.8 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Émile ZolaNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 107 | 77%−7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
73 sales of houses and apartments in Cagny, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,215/m². Estimated advertised rent for houses: €11.06/m² a month. Also worth knowing: among the homes sold, 97% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,215/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 0.8% of the total, lower than both Calvados’ towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (7.4%). Its oldest listed monument dates from the 11th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town, lower than both Calvados’ towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for one in ten residents. Among adults, 19% have a degree.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Cagny | Calvados median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Calvados median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (75 places) counts its residents as Cagny’s; allowing for it, deaths were 9% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 203 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 276, 36% more. Life expectancy in Calvados: 85.5 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. There is one general practitioner here.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Per resident in work, Cagny counts 0.8 jobs (750 jobs, 850 workers). Public transport took 3.0% of the town’s working residents to work at the census. Of those in the labour force, 9.5% are unemployed.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Among the graded crimes in Cagny, the most frequent was family violence (2025). 19 offenses were reported in Cagny during 2025. Violence against people ran at 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.2 (2023–2025 average).
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 criminal damage, 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, 50.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
The list names few of Cagny’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ancien prieuré Notre-Dame-des-Moutiers: Photo: Roi.dagobert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cagny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cagny | 2,066 | — | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Démouville | 3,035 | 2.5 | — | C | — | A− |
| Bourguébus | 2,613 | 2.6 | B+ | C | A | B− |
| Giberville | 5,077 | 2.7 | C+ | C | B | B |
| Mondeville | 10,331 | 3.2 | D | C− | C− | C |
| Cormelles-le-Royal | 5,377 | 3.5 | B | C− | A− | B− |
| Colombelles | 7,243 | 4 | D | C− | C | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cagny has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 4% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,215/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.44/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Cagny grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Calvados, Normandy
Cagny is a commune of 2,066 people in the Communauté de communes Val ès Dunes. 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.