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The town, home to 3,428 people, lies in Calvados, Normandy. Young adults aged 15 to 24 make up 15% of residents.
Walkability is its strong suit: 98% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Carpiquet’s overall grade of B− puts it better than 54% of compared French towns, #17 of 46 in Calvados. It is strong on safety as well: an average of 3.1 recorded violent incidents and 15.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Housing is expensive (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for schools, B− for health and B for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · 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 Carpiquet does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Carpiquet 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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The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Carpiquet, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1927.
3.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Carpiquet. Best known first.
Theme parkFestyland1.2 km east, in Bretteville-sur-Odon
MuseumMusée d’initiation à la nature4.9 km east, in CaenMuseumMuseumMémorial de Caen4.2 km east, in CaenAttractionAttractionAbbaye d'Ardenne2.2 km northeast, in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-HerbeGardenGardenJardin des plantes de Caen5 km east, in CaenPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Carpiquet.
Carpiquet has 3,750 jobs for 1,700 working residents, 2.2 per worker. Half of residents lived on more than €24,760 a year per consumption unit, about level with Calvados’ towns (€24,235) and below compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 7.5% of working residents in Carpiquet went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €11.87/m² a month. Houses were 78% of what sold. Also worth knowing: the estimated advertised rent is €13.30/m² a month, near Calvados’ towns (€12.67/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,935/m² | 57 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
18% of residents are 65 or over, below both Calvados’ towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). Degrees are held by 32% of adults. Half the people of Carpiquet are older than 38.6.
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Carpiquet | Calvados median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 15% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Calvados median and France median: the median of compared communes
More of the graded crimes in Carpiquet were criminal damage than anything else (2025). 2025 saw 66 offenses recorded in the town.
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 and vehicle theft, 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, 7.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 3.5% of the total.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 2 general practitioners in Carpiquet. Its care home for older people (84 places) counts its residents as Carpiquet’s; allowing for it, deaths were 11% below expected. 399 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 342: 17% above. In Calvados, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.5 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The town’s pupils have a collège 1.4 mi away. Its collèges and lycées rank #16 of 50 in Calvados on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MoulinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 131 | 95%+3 pts |
| Lycée privé Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 265 | 99%±0 pts |
| Collège Saint-Paul PrivateBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 135 | 99%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The list names few of Carpiquet’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Double porte d'entrée: Photo: Entomolo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Carpiquet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carpiquet | 3,428 | — | B− | C− | B+ | B− |
| Bretteville-sur-Odon | 4,494 | 1.5 | A | D | A | A |
| Verson | 4,059 | 2.2 | A | C− | B+ | B− |
| Rots | 2,544 | 2.7 | — | C | — | A |
| Louvigny | 2,612 | 2.8 | — | D | — | A− |
| Fontaine-Étoupefour | 2,810 | 3 | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Caen | 109,400 | 3.2 | D | D | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #23 of 46 in Calvados. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 12 burglaries and 25 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 52% of compared French towns and #16 of 50 in Calvados. 99% of 265 candidates passed the bac at Lycée privé Jeanne d'Arc in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Carpiquet grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Calvados, Normandy
Carpiquet is a commune of 3,428 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 November 4, 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.