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MisseryCôte-d'Or

In Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, this town has 105 residents.

Is Missery a good place to live?

Missery has no grades yet: French towns are graded from 1,000 residents up. Second homes make up 28% of its housing. People aged 65 and over make up 49% of residents.

What makes Missery stand out

The 2 things Missery does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Château
Château · Classé · Photo: Pucesurvitaminee · CC BY-SA 3.0
Missery’s story

Missery in pictures

Missery has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.

The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1981.

57% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Missery.

Who lives here

Missery has fewer young adults than Côte-d'Or’s towns or compared French towns: 4.9% are 15 to 24

Under 15: 12% of residents. Just over a third of adults hold a degree, higher than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Missery has a median age of 62.5 years.

62.5median age
MisseryCôte-d'Or medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma15%
CAP or BEP31%
Baccalauréat15%
Higher education34%

Women and men · all residents

54% women, 46% men

About 84 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.

Ages and diplomas in Missery
MisseryCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Under 1512%15%17%
15–244.9%11%11%
25–4414%22%23%
45–6421%26%26%
65+49%24%22%
No diploma15%22%19%
CAP or BEP31%25%26%
Baccalauréat15%17%18%
Higher education34%31%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Côte-d'Or median and France median: the median of compared communes

History

Old homes shape Missery: 57% were built before 1919, more than in Côte-d'Or’s towns or compared French towns

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

The protected list starts in the 14th century.

1historic monument

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé1
Inscrit0
14th c.
oldest protected part
1981
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Work & commute

Missery is better off than Côte-d'Or’s towns or compared French towns: the median disposable income is €29,080 a year per consumption unit

Unemployment stood at 6.5%, lower than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). A tenth of Missery’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.

0%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving90%
On foot0%
Public transport0%
Bicycle0%
Motorbike or scooter0%
0
jobs based in Missery, 0.4 per working resident
6.5%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€29,080
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
10%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Estimated advertised rents run lower in Missery than in Côte-d'Or’s towns or across compared French towns: €7.65/m² a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Renting a house costs an estimated €7.83/m² a month. 7 houses and apartments changed hands in Missery from July 2023 to June 2026.

€7.65/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Missery€7.65/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Côte-d'Or median€12.92/m²
€7.65/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€6.08 to €9.63/m² a month)
€7.83/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Château de Missery and 2 more in and around Missery

Heritage in and near Missery. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
Keep exploring

Everything we know about Missery

12pages on Missery

Landmarks

Missery has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.

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Famous people from Missery

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Missery yet.

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Missery’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Côte-d'Or →
Semur-en-AuxoisVenarey-les-LaumesSemur-en-AuxoisVenarey-les-LaumesMissery
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Missery105—————
Semur-en-Auxois3,98613A−A−CB−
Venarey-les-Laumes2,74716A−AA+C

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Missery

Commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Missery is a commune of 105 people in the Communauté de communes des Terres d'Auxois. 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

Population
105 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes des Terres d'Auxois
Département
Côte-d'Or (21)
Région
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Area
3.7 sq mi (9.7 km²)
INSEE code
21417

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 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.