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In Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, this town has 1,515 residents.
Where it does best is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 36% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs & income is another plus: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 6.1% unemployment. Prices are high against local incomes (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Over-65s are 35% of the population.
Daix 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 2 things Daix does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Daix 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.
Daix 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 Daix as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Borne armoriée, in Talant, 1 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Daix. Best known first.
ChâteauPalais des ducs de Bourgogne4.5 km southeast, in Dijon
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon4.5 km southeast, in Dijon
MuseumMusée Magnin4.5 km southeast, in Dijon
MuseumMusée archéologique de Dijon4.1 km southeast, in Dijon
MuseumMusée d'art sacré de Dijon4.6 km southeast, in DijonPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Daix.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
One GP practises in Daix. At birth, a girl in Côte-d'Or can expect 86.1 years and a boy 80.4 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 254 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 211, 17% fewer.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €13.57/m² a month, about level with Côte-d'Or’s towns (€12.92/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €12.07/m² a month. Houses accounted for just over nine in ten sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,380/m² | 42 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 35% of the town, higher than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Aged 15 to 24: 9.4% of residents. What’s more, 14% of residents are children under 15.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Daix | Côte-d'Or median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 14% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 55% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côte-d'Or median and France median: the median of compared communes
At the census, 16.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. 6.1% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Côte-d'Or’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%).
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.
Vocational results within 5 km: 86% passed the bac pro, of 688 candidates at 6 lycées. For collège, the closest is 0.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Boris VianNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 63 | 94%+5 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique MontchapetNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 306 | 97%±0 pts |
| Collège Jean-Philippe RameauBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 138 | 88%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Daix 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 Daix 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daix | 1,515 | — | — | D | — | A+ |
| Talant | 11,896 | 0.9 | B | C− | B | B+ |
| Fontaine-lès-Dijon | 9,252 | 1.4 | A− | C− | B | A |
| Dijon | 161,830 | 2.6 | C+ | C− | C− | B+ |
| Chenôve | 14,244 | 3.9 | C | B− | C− | C− |
| Saint-Apollinaire | 7,544 | 4.1 | A− | D | A− | B+ |
| Longvic | 8,896 | 5.1 | C+ | C | C+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Daix has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.3 recorded violent incidents and 4.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B, better than 64% of compared French towns. 97% of 306 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Montchapet 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 higher than in most compared French towns, so Daix grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Daix is a commune of 1,515 people in the Dijon Métropole. 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.