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Some 12,310 people live in this town, in Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire.
A town with more to fix than most. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 1.2 jobs per working resident; 19.6% unemployment. Where it does best is walkability — 84% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Buying 70 m² at the median €1,920/m² takes 5.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Agglo du Pays de Dreux. Overall, that makes a D, better than just over a tenth of compared French towns.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Vernouillet 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.
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The 2 things Vernouillet does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Vernouillet as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancien hôtel de ville, dit Le Beffroi, in Dreux, 1.1 mi away.
1.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Vernouillet is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vernouillet.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
A collège lies 0.8 mi away. Ranked by results, schools here are #25 of 31 in Eure-et-Loir. At the three general lycées, 95% of 868 candidates passed the bac, at the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Nicolas RobertNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 159 | 72%−8 pts |
| Lycée RotrouNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 388 | 94%−1 pt |
| Collège Pierre et Marie CurieBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 105 | 76%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income was €21,730 a year per consumption unit, below Eure-et-Loir’s towns (€24,620) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. Public transport took 10.2% of Vernouillet’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people ran at 9.5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 16.2 (2023–2025 average). Vernouillet has 4,950 jobs for 4,000 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. The 2025 count: 325 offenses in the town. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes 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 · When armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (0.2% 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. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The split in Vernouillet: €2,049/m² for houses, €1,285/m² for apartments. Houses made up 74% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €10.94/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,049/m² | 228 |
| Apartments | €1,285/m² | 79 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its two care homes for older people (185 places) count their residents as Vernouillet’s; allowing for them, deaths were 7% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 1,390 residents of Vernouillet died, against 1,311 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 6% more. In Eure-et-Loir, life expectancy at birth reaches 84.7 years for women and 79.8 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. For a family doctor, residents of Vernouillet can choose among 5 GPs.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 12% of residents, higher than both Eure-et-Loir’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). 21% of residents are 65 or over. Graduates make up 18% of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Eure-et-Loir 52.3%, France 51.8%.
| Vernouillet | Eure-et-Loir median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 33% | 27% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Eure-et-Loir median and France median: the median of compared communes
Museums and heritage in and near Vernouillet. Best known first.
ChurchChapelle royale de Dreux1.9 km northeast, in Dreux
MuseumÉcomusée des Vignerons et Artisans Drouais1.4 km northeast, in Dreux
MuseumMusée d'Art et d'Histoire de Dreux1.8 km northeast, in DreuxChâteauChâteauChâteau de Comteville3.9 km northeast, in DreuxChurchChurchChapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Dreux1.8 km northeast, in DreuxMuseumMuseumLe Prix de la Liberté3.8 km northeast, in DreuxPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Vernouillet as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire
Vernouillet is a commune of 12,310 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Agglo du Pays de Dreux. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernouillet | 12,310 | — | D | C+ | C | C+ |
| Dreux | 31,543 | 1.3 | D | C+ | D | C− |
| Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre | 4,058 | 5.4 | C− | B− | B+ | C− |
| Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets | 4,116 | 7.4 | C− | B | B+ | D |
| Nogent-le-Roi | 4,021 | 9.8 | B+ | B+ | B+ | C− |
| Anet | 2,721 | 9.9 | C | C− | B+ | C− |
| Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 3,644 | 10 | C− | C | B+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C for safety, #20 of 30 in Eure-et-Loir. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 54 burglaries and 105 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 20% of compared French towns and #25 of 31 in Eure-et-Loir. 94% of 388 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Rotrou in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.52/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Vernouillet grades C+ for cost of living.
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 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.