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A town of 1,353 in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Saint-Usage has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.6 jobs per working resident; 11.4% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (B): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Saint-Usage does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Usage 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Usage as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Hôtel de ville, in Saint-Jean-de-Losne, 0.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Usage.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Côte-d'Or, women can expect to live 86.1 years and men 80.4 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Adjusted for age and care homes, Saint-Usage records 95 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (86) and compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 112 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 107, 5% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Usage is Ch Louis Pasteur Dole, 10.1 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 D to B+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Homes sold for a median €1,855/m², below both Côte-d'Or’s towns (€2,299/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Saint-Usage recorded 48 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,855/m² | 48 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 11.4%, higher than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €23,940 a year per consumption unit. Bus, tram or train carried 2.5% of working residents in Saint-Usage to work at the census.
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.
The nearest collège is 0.7 mi away. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 8.4 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Les Hautes PaillesNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 65 | 85%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Those aged 15 to 24 account for 13% of residents. People 65 and over make up 21% of the town, lower than both Côte-d'Or’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Ages in Saint-Usage split evenly at 42.3: half are older, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Usage | Côte-d'Or median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côte-d'Or median and France median: the median of compared communes
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.3 cases of violence against people and 10.3 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Over 2025, Saint-Usage logged 13 recorded offenses. Also worth knowing: of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (2025).
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 · For family violence, other physical violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 39.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Saint-Usage is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Usage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Usage | 1,353 | — | — | B | — | C |
| Damparis Jura | 2,587 | 7.7 | B | A− | A | C− |
| Tavaux Jura | 3,888 | 8.4 | A | B+ | B | A− |
| Auxonne | 7,581 | 8.7 | C+ | A− | C+ | C |
| Genlis | 5,093 | 9.3 | A− | B | B+ | C− |
| Dole Jura | 23,840 | 11 | B− | B+ | C | B− |
| Neuilly-Crimolois | 3,588 | 14 | B+ | C | A+ | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Usage has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C+, better than 42% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saint-Usage grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Saint-Usage is a commune of 1,353 people in the Communauté de communes Rives de Saône. 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.