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A town in Calvados, Normandy, home to 1,025 people.
Health is a strength (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. School results trail most towns: bac results 4.3 points below the expected rate; brevet results 2.7 points below the expected rate. It is hard to get around without a car (C−): 2% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Grentheville 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 one thing Grentheville does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Grentheville 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.
Grentheville 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 Grentheville as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Vieille église Notre-Dame-des-Prés, in Mondeville, 2.1 mi away.
4.7% 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 Grentheville.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pro: 85% of 350 candidates passed at the 3 vocational lycées within 5 km. 81.9% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Grentheville, below both Calvados’ towns (87.5%) and compared French towns (87.5%). Collège pupils travel 2.5 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Gisèle GuillemotNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 132 | 76%−5 pts |
| Lycée Jules VerneNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 21 | 95% |
| Collège Guillaume de NormandieBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 141 | 76%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
After tax and benefits, the median income is €27,960 a year per consumption unit. 1,000 jobs are based in Grentheville, for 500 working residents (2 per worker). The census found 7.1% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport.
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.
Life expectancy at birth in Calvados is 85.5 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 43 deaths in Grentheville between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 56: 24% below. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Grentheville is Polyclinique du Parc Caen, 2.9 mi away.
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 care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in Grentheville: 24 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses were 92% of what sold. Renting a house costs an estimated €11.87/m² a month.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 36% of adults, above both Calvados’ towns (26%) and compared French towns (30%). The under-15s are 19% of the population here. At 43.6, the median resident of Grentheville sits in the middle of the age range.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Grentheville | Calvados median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Calvados median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Grentheville. Best known first.
Nothing in Grentheville 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 Grentheville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grentheville | 1,025 | — | — | C | — | A− |
| Bourguébus | 2,613 | 1.9 | B+ | C | A | B− |
| Cormelles-le-Royal | 5,377 | 2.1 | B | C− | A− | B− |
| Mondeville | 10,331 | 2.2 | D | C− | C− | C |
| Giberville | 5,077 | 2.4 | C+ | C | B | B |
| Démouville | 3,035 | 2.6 | — | C | — | A− |
| Ifs | 11,937 | 2.8 | B− | C− | C+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Grentheville has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.9 recorded violent incidents and 6.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade D, better than 10% of compared French towns. 95% of 21 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Jules Verne in 2025 given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Calvados, Normandy
Grentheville is a commune of 1,025 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) · 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 8, 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.