Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,115 in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Mathay has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. At the median price of €1,514/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération. Its strongest is health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Mathay does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mathay 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 Mathay as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Théâtre gallo-romain (vestiges), in Mandeure, 1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mathay.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In the comparison, Mathay comes below both Doubs’ towns (95) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 169 residents of Mathay died, against 219 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 23% fewer. 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.
For Mathay, that is below both Doubs’ towns (€10.97/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,514/m², comes from 51 sales of houses and apartments in Mathay from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,541/m² | 42 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Mathay sits above both Doubs’ towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%) on this measure. Children are 15% of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Mathay | Doubs median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Doubs median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Mathay above both Doubs’ towns (85.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean Paul GuyotNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 89 | 98%+8 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Armand PeugeotNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 277 | 93%−2 pts |
| Collège les BruyèresBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 99 | 86%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On this, Mathay is below both Doubs’ towns (11.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Mathay has 400 jobs for 900 working residents, 0.4 per worker. At the census, 6.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 17 offenses in the graded categories in Mathay in 2025. For sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, 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, 30.9% of the index here.
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
Nothing in Mathay is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Mathay.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathay | 2,115 | — | — | A− | — | A− |
| Mandeure | 4,612 | 1.7 | C− | B | C+ | D |
| Voujeaucourt | 3,174 | 2.6 | B+ | B+ | A− | B− |
| Valentigney | 10,501 | 2.9 | C+ | A− | B− | C |
| Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans | 3,912 | 3.5 | A− | A | B | D |
| Seloncourt | 5,854 | 3.9 | B+ | B+ | A− | C+ |
| Bavans | 3,582 | 3.9 | B− | B+ | A | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mathay has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 8.2 recorded violent incidents and 3.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 40% of compared French towns. 93% of 277 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Armand Peugeot in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. 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 €1,514/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mathay grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Mathay is a commune of 2,115 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.