Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It is a town of 8,056 residents in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Households here earn well (A+): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 5.9% unemployment. The trade-off is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools lag: brevet results 5 points below the expected rate. Put together, the subjects come to a B+ overall, ranking #18 of 100 in Gironde. On that grade it does better than three quarters of compared French towns.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Martignas-sur-Jalle does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Martignas-sur-Jalle 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 Martignas-sur-Jalle as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Tour de Veyrines, in Mérignac, 6.7 mi away.
0.6% 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 Martignas-sur-Jalle.
The commonest graded crime in Martignas-sur-Jalle was criminal damage (2025). Violence against people averaged 4.7 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 7.4. This Gironde town comes 3rd of the 100 compared towns in Gironde on the Safety Grade. The 2025 count: 78 offenses in the town.
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 armed robbery and theft from vehicles, 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, 2.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €13.94/m² a month, near Gironde’s towns (€13.75/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses sell for €3,696/m² in Martignas-sur-Jalle, apartments for €3,482/m². The sales split: 68% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,696/m² | 140 |
| Apartments | €3,482/m² | 66 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
By results, schools here place #67 of 93 in Gironde. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 5.4 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Aliénor d'AquitaineNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 97 | 91%−4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 555 residents of Martignas-sur-Jalle died, against 610 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 9% fewer. Weighed against its ages and care homes, Martignas-sur-Jalle records 81 deaths per 100 expected. The nearest emergency department to Martignas-sur-Jalle is Hopital Haut Leveque Chu, 7.1 mi away. In Gironde, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 81.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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.
11% of residents are 15 to 24, higher than both Gironde’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 16% of residents. The median resident of Martignas-sur-Jalle is 42.4 years old.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Martignas-sur-Jalle | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.6% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 45% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stood at 5.9%, below both Gironde’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 3.7% of working residents in Martignas-sur-Jalle went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Martignas-sur-Jalle 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 Martignas-sur-Jalle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martignas-sur-Jalle | 8,056 | — | B+ | D | A | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-d'Illac | 9,616 | 2.6 | B+ | C | B+ | A− |
| Saint-Médard-en-Jalles | 32,910 | 4.2 | A− | D | B | A |
| Le Haillan | 11,392 | 5.5 | C+ | D | C− | B |
| Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc | 7,769 | 5.6 | B+ | D | A− | B |
| Mérignac | 78,090 | 6.6 | B− | D | C− | B+ |
| Le Taillan-Médoc | 11,073 | 6.6 | B− | D | C+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #3 of 100 in Gironde. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 24 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 31% of compared French towns and #67 of 93 in Gironde. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Martignas-sur-Jalle grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Martignas-sur-Jalle is a commune of 8,056 people in the Bordeaux 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 November 9, 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.