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Home to 1,486 people, this town lies in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Where it does best is jobs & income — 1.2 jobs per working resident; 6.2% unemployment. Buying in is costly (C+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for schools and C+ for walkability. Young adults aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a fifth of residents.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Dannemarie-sur-Crète 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 Dannemarie-sur-Crète 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.
Dannemarie-sur-Crète has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Dannemarie-sur-Crète does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Dannemarie-sur-Crète as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Torpes, in Torpes, 2.7 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Dannemarie-sur-Crète is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dannemarie-sur-Crète.
Degrees are held by 44% of adults. Retirement age and beyond: 15% of residents are 65 or older. Ages in Dannemarie-sur-Crète split evenly at 37.9: half are older, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Dannemarie-sur-Crète | Doubs median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 19% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 44% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Doubs median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 2 general practitioners in Dannemarie-sur-Crète. Life expectancy in Doubs: 85.7 years for women and 79.4 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 88 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 72, 18% 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses were 90% of what sold. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €9.22/m² a month. Advertised rents are estimated at €12.19/m² a month, above Doubs’ towns (€10.97/m²) and close to compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Half of residents lived on more than €28,780 a year per consumption unit, above Doubs’ towns (€26,330) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. Public transport took 5.8% of Dannemarie-sur-Crète’s working residents 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.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 5.3 mi away. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean JaurèsNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 166 | 91%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Dannemarie-sur-Crète. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Dannemarie-sur-Crète as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Dannemarie-sur-Crète is a commune of 1,486 people in the Communauté urbaine Grand Besançon 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dannemarie-sur-Crète | 1,486 | — | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Vit | 5,133 | 2.9 | A− | C+ | B− | B+ |
| École-Valentin | 2,579 | 7.4 | A− | C− | B+ | A+ |
| Besançon | 118,489 | 7.4 | C | C | C− | B |
| Miserey-Salines | 2,661 | 7.6 | — | C− | — | A |
| Les Auxons | 2,533 | 7.9 | — | C | — | A− |
| Thise | 2,994 | 11 | — | C | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Dannemarie-sur-Crète has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.2 recorded violent incidents and 7.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. With 850 jobs for 700 working residents, Dannemarie-sur-Crète draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
They grade B, better than 58% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Dannemarie-sur-Crète grades C+ for cost of living.
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 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.