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Home to 1,206 people, this town lies in Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire.
Where it does best is jobs & income (A+) — 1.4 jobs per working resident; 4.4% unemployment. Health is a strength too — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its weakest subject is walkability: 77% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for cost of living and B for schools.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Fontenay-sur-Eure 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 Fontenay-sur-Eure 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.
Fontenay-sur-Eure has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Fontenay-sur-Eure, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1987.
Noël Ballay, born in 1847, is the one person born in Fontenay-sur-Eure before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Fontenay-sur-Eure has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Séverin: Photo: Le Passant · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Fontenay-sur-Eure.
The median disposable income was €30,520 a year per consumption unit, above both Eure-et-Loir’s towns (€24,620) and compared French towns (€25,970). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 5.1% of commuters travelled at the census. Also worth knowing: at the census, 3.9% of working residents in Fontenay-sur-Eure didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, lower than both Eure-et-Loir’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 16% of residents. Among adults, 37% have a degree.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Eure-et-Loir 52.3%, France 51.8%.
| Fontenay-sur-Eure | Eure-et-Loir median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.2% | 27% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Eure-et-Loir median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
51 deaths in Fontenay-sur-Eure between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 63: 19% below. Life expectancy at birth in Eure-et-Loir is 84.7 years for women and 79.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. There are 3 general practitioners 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 care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up nearly a tenth of the total, below Eure-et-Loir’s towns (13%) but above compared French towns (7.4%). Its oldest listed monument dates from the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.7 mi to the nearest one. At the general lycée, 94% of 287 candidates passed the bac, 2 points below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Saint-Jacques de compostelle PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 65 | 97%+1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Silvia MonfortNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 287 | 94%−2 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.
Fontenay-sur-Eure recorded 20 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
With 800 jobs for 550 working residents, Fontenay-sur-Eure draws people in from neighbouring communes. Violence against people ran at 2.6 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.1 (2023–2025 average). The commonest graded crime here was other physical violence (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 · For family 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, 100.0% of the index here. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
One notable person was born in Fontenay-sur-Eure.
Commune in Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire
Fontenay-sur-Eure is a commune of 1,206 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Chartres 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fontenay-sur-Eure | 1,206 | — | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Saint-Georges-sur-Eure | 2,797 | 2.8 | — | B+ | — | B |
| Luisant | 6,945 | 3.3 | B+ | C | B+ | A |
| Lucé | 15,921 | 3.4 | D | C+ | C | C− |
| Mainvilliers | 10,629 | 4.4 | D | C | C+ | C |
| Le Coudray | 4,038 | 4.4 | B− | C | C | B |
| Chartres | 38,324 | 5 | C | C | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fontenay-sur-Eure has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B, better than 57% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
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.