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This town in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has a population of 1,498.
Where it does best is jobs & income — 0.3 jobs per working resident; 3.5% unemployment. Its lowest grade is for walkability: 57% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Tarcenay-Foucherans 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 Tarcenay-Foucherans 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.
Tarcenay-Foucherans has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Tarcenay-Foucherans as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Hôpital rural Saint-Louis, in Ornans, 3.7 mi away.
12% 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 Tarcenay-Foucherans.
The median disposable income was €29,030 a year per consumption unit, higher than both Doubs’ towns (€26,330) and compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 4.6% of working residents in Tarcenay-Foucherans at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The sales split: 82% houses, the rest apartments. Tarcenay-Foucherans recorded 22 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 18% of the town, lower than both Doubs’ towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 11%. Among adults, 39% have a degree.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Tarcenay-Foucherans | Doubs median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 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.
78 deaths in Tarcenay-Foucherans between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 92: 15% below. The nearest emergency department to Tarcenay-Foucherans is Centre hospitalier Universitaire Jean Minjoz Besancon, 8.7 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Doubs is 85.7 years for women and 79.4 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. There is one general practitioner here.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
Police and gendarmerie recorded 0 offenses in the graded categories in Tarcenay-Foucherans in 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
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Tarcenay-Foucherans. Best known first.
Nothing in Tarcenay-Foucherans 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 Tarcenay-Foucherans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarcenay-Foucherans | 1,498 | — | — | B+ | — | B |
| Ornans | 4,419 | 3.9 | A+ | A− | A− | B+ |
| Saône | 3,195 | 4.4 | A | C+ | A | B− |
| Besançon | 118,489 | 7.6 | C | C | C− | B |
| Thise | 2,994 | 8.7 | — | C | — | B− |
| École-Valentin | 2,579 | 10 | A− | C− | B+ | A+ |
| Valdahon | 5,705 | 10 | B+ | C+ | B+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Tarcenay-Foucherans has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 5.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Tarcenay-Foucherans is a commune of 1,498 people in the Communauté de communes Loue-Lison. 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) · 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.