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1,571 people live in this town in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Households here earn well (A): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 4.0% unemployment. A 70 m² home at the median €2,205/m² costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Mirebellois et Fontenois. It is hard to get around without a car: 88% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Belleneuve 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.
Each subject compares Belleneuve 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.
Belleneuve has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Belleneuve as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de la Nativité, in Mirebeau-sur-Bèze, 3.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Belleneuve.
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above both Côte-d'Or’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). The share of residents under 15 is 18%. Graduates make up 37% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Belleneuve | Côte-d'Or median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côte-d'Or median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stood at 4.0%, below Côte-d'Or’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €29,120 a year. At the census, 3.7% of working residents in Belleneuve didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
The median price, €2,205/m², comes from 45 sales of houses and apartments in Belleneuve from July 2023 to June 2026. House rents are put at about €9.58/m² a month. Houses made up 98% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,239/m² | 44 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Belleneuve is Hopital le Bocage Chru Dijon, 9.7 mi away. Its care home for older people (52 places) counts its residents as Belleneuve’s; allowing for it, deaths were 12% below expected. 209 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 177: 18% above. Women in Côte-d'Or live to 86.1 on average and men to 80.4 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across 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 · 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 B+.
The graded crime recorded most in Belleneuve was criminal damage (2025). For 2025, the figures show 5 offenses locally. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 1.8 violent offenses and 3.8 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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 · When family violence, sexual violence, burglary and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (81.1% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and gardens in and near Belleneuve. Best known first.
Nothing in Belleneuve 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 Belleneuve 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belleneuve | 1,571 | — | — | B− | — | B− |
| Arc-sur-Tille | 2,584 | 4 | — | A− | — | A |
| Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur | 11,108 | 7.7 | B | C− | B+ | B |
| Quetigny | 8,971 | 7.9 | C | C− | C− | B |
| Genlis | 5,093 | 8.5 | A− | B | B+ | C− |
| Saint-Apollinaire | 7,544 | 8.8 | A− | D | A− | B+ |
| Neuilly-Crimolois | 3,588 | 9.2 | B+ | C | A+ | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Belleneuve has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,205/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €13.02/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Belleneuve grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Belleneuve is a commune of 1,571 people in the Communauté de communes Mirebellois et Fontenois. 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.