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This town in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has a population of 1,220.
Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its lowest grade is for health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 8% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on schools as well — bac results a point below the expected rate; brevet results 3 points below the expected rate. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for jobs & income and C+ for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Villers-les-Pots 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 one thing Villers-les-Pots does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Villers-les-Pots 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.
Villers-les-Pots 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 Villers-les-Pots as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle de la Levée d'Auxonne, in Tillenay, 0.8 mi away.
14% 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 Villers-les-Pots.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
One GP practises in Villers-les-Pots. Life expectancy at birth in Côte-d'Or is 86.1 years for women and 80.4 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 83 residents of Villers-les-Pots died, against 77 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% more. The nearest emergency department to Villers-les-Pots is Ch Louis Pasteur Dole, 10.4 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−.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.3 mi to the nearest one. At the general lycée, 94% of 199 candidates passed the bac, a point below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège La Croix des SarrasinsNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 132 | 88%−3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Prieur de la Côte-d'OrNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 199 | 94%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,777/m², comes from 43 sales of houses and apartments in Villers-les-Pots from July 2023 to June 2026. Of the homes sold, 95% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,850/m² | 41 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
27% of adults hold a degree, below both Côte-d'Or’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for 8.9% of residents. Retirement age and beyond: 18% of residents are 65 or older.
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Villers-les-Pots | Côte-d'Or median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côte-d'Or median and France median: the median of compared communes
The median disposable income was €27,450 a year per consumption unit, above both Côte-d'Or’s towns (€25,550) and compared French towns (€25,970). For its 550 residents in work, Villers-les-Pots has 200 jobs: 0.3 each. Walking, cycling and public transport carried nearly one in ten commuters at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 2.6 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 3.4. More of the graded crimes in Villers-les-Pots were other physical violence than anything else (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 · Small counts of family violence, sexual violence, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 100.0% of the index here.
Nothing in Villers-les-Pots 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 Villers-les-Pots 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villers-les-Pots | 1,220 | — | — | B+ | — | D |
| Auxonne | 7,581 | 2.4 | C+ | A− | C+ | C |
| Genlis | 5,093 | 6.4 | A− | B | B+ | C− |
| Damparis Jura | 2,587 | 9.9 | B | A− | A | C− |
| Dole Jura | 23,840 | 10 | B− | B+ | C | B− |
| Tavaux Jura | 3,888 | 12 | A | B+ | B | A− |
| Arc-sur-Tille | 2,584 | 12 | — | A− | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Villers-les-Pots has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C, better than 28% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,777/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Villers-les-Pots grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Villers-les-Pots is a commune of 1,220 people in the Communauté de communes Auxonne Pontailler Val 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 November 9, 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.