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1,385 residents make their home in this town in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Residents are healthier than most: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 41% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs & income is another plus — 0.5 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment. The rest of its grades are middling: B for schools and C+ for walkability.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Ruffey-lès-Echirey 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 Ruffey-lès-Echirey 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.
Ruffey-lès-Echirey 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 Ruffey-lès-Echirey as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église du Sacré-Cœur, in Dijon, 2.8 mi away.
15% 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 Ruffey-lès-Echirey.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Ruffey-lès-Echirey have one GP on hand. In Côte-d'Or, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.1 years for women and 80.4 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. 70 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 118: 41% below.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses accounted for 89% of sales, apartments for the rest. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 28 homes in Ruffey-lès-Echirey.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Ruffey-lès-Echirey, 96.6% of lycée candidates passed the bac, above Côte-d'Or’s towns (93.3%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. Collège pupils travel 2.4 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Clos de PouillyNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 188 | 93%+2 pts |
| Lycée international Charles de GaulleNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 319 | 98%−1 pt |
| Collège Jean-François ChampollionBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 108 | 91%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Of those in the labour force, 6.0% are unemployed. At the census, 8.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (22.8%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
18% are under 15, above both Côte-d'Or’s towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%). The 65-and-over age group makes up just over a fifth of residents. Ruffey-lès-Echirey has a median age of 46.2 years.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Ruffey-lès-Echirey | Côte-d'Or median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 44% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côte-d'Or median and France median: the median of compared communes
More of the graded crimes in Ruffey-lès-Echirey were criminal damage than anything else (2025). Recorded offenses locally came to 6 in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 2.3 (2023–2025 average).
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, other physical 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 (53.4% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit, heritage and gardens in and near Ruffey-lès-Echirey. Best known first.
Nothing in Ruffey-lès-Echirey is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Ruffey-lès-Echirey.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruffey-lès-Echirey | 1,385 | — | — | A− | — | A+ |
| Saint-Apollinaire | 7,544 | 2.6 | A− | D | A− | B+ |
| Fontaine-lès-Dijon | 9,252 | 3.2 | A− | C− | B | A |
| Dijon | 161,830 | 3.9 | C+ | C− | C− | B+ |
| Quetigny | 8,971 | 4 | C | C− | C− | B |
| Talant | 11,896 | 4.4 | B | C− | B | B+ |
| Arc-sur-Tille | 2,584 | 5.2 | — | A− | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ruffey-lès-Echirey has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B, better than 60% of compared French towns. 98% of 319 candidates passed the bac at Lycée international Charles de Gaulle in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Ruffey-lès-Echirey is a commune of 1,385 people in the Communauté de communes Norge et Tille. 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 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.