Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,617 in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Pelousey has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 83% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,416/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté urbaine Grand Besançon Métropole. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 32% 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 one thing Pelousey does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Pelousey 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 Pelousey as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine du château de Moncley, in Moncley, 3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Pelousey.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For Pelousey, that is below both Doubs’ towns (95) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 62 residents of Pelousey died, against 91 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 32% 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
Pelousey sits above both Doubs’ towns (26%) and compared French towns (30%) on this measure. 14% of residents are 65 or over.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Pelousey | Doubs median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 46% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Doubs median and France median: the median of compared communes
That puts Pelousey below both Doubs’ towns (11.3%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Pelousey has 450 jobs for 800 working residents, 0.6 per worker. The median disposable income is €28,840 a year per consumption unit.
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.
On this, Pelousey is above both Doubs’ towns (85.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges PompidouNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 138 | 90%−3 pts |
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, €2,416/m², comes from 43 sales of houses and apartments in Pelousey from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,474/m² | 38 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Pelousey. Best known first.
Nothing in Pelousey is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Pelousey as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelousey | 1,617 | — | — | C+ | — | A |
| Les Auxons | 2,533 | 2.5 | — | C | — | A− |
| Miserey-Salines | 2,661 | 2.7 | — | C− | — | A |
| École-Valentin | 2,579 | 3.1 | A− | C− | B+ | A+ |
| Besançon | 118,489 | 4.9 | C | C | C− | B |
| Thise | 2,994 | 7.2 | — | C | — | B− |
| Saint-Vit | 5,133 | 8.1 | A− | C+ | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Pelousey has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3 recorded violent incidents and 5.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B, better than 64% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.68/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Pelousey grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Pelousey is a commune of 1,617 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
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.