Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,129 in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Fesches-le-Châtel has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is cost of living (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 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 Fesches-le-Châtel does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Fesches-le-Châtel 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Fesches-le-Châtel as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de l'Immaculée Conception, in Audincourt, 4.4 mi away.
17% 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 Fesches-le-Châtel.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Fesches-le-Châtel is above both Doubs’ towns (95) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 203 residents of Fesches-le-Châtel died, against 179 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In the comparison, Fesches-le-Châtel comes below both Doubs’ towns (€10.97/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,452/m², comes from 65 sales of houses and apartments in Fesches-le-Châtel from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,648/m² | 45 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For Fesches-le-Châtel, that is close to Doubs’ towns (85.0%) and below compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Lucie AubracNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 86 | 86%−6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 36 offenses in the graded categories in Fesches-le-Châtel in 2025. Violence against people ran at 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.7 (2023–2025 average). For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 18.2% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Fesches-le-Châtel sits above both Doubs’ towns (11.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%) on this measure. Fesches-le-Châtel has 450 jobs for 950 working residents, 0.5 per worker. 7.9% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
That puts Fesches-le-Châtel below both Doubs’ towns (26%) and compared French towns (30%). Children under 15 make up 15% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Fesches-le-Châtel | Doubs median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Doubs median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Fesches-le-Châtel 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 Fesches-le-Châtel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fesches-le-Châtel | 2,129 | — | — | A− | B+ | D |
| Étupes | 3,689 | 2.5 | C+ | B | B− | C+ |
| Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 4,966 | 2.5 | A− | A+ | B+ | C+ |
| Grandvillars Territoire de Belfort | 2,947 | 3.1 | B | A | A− | C |
| Vieux-Charmont | 2,786 | 3.4 | — | B | — | B− |
| Sochaux | 3,721 | 3.6 | C− | A− | C | D |
| Châtenois-les-Forges Territoire de Belfort | 2,608 | 3.7 | — | B+ | — | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade C, better than 26% 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 €1,452/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Fesches-le-Châtel grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Fesches-le-Châtel is a commune of 2,129 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération. 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.