Find your town in Haute-Marne
Haute-Marne has 426 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 6 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 22 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Haute-Marne is like
The median ranked town in Haute-Marne grades highest on cost of living and walkability against towns across France, and lowest on safety. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
1 of 6 (17%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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6 towns · ordered by Haute-Marne rank
420 smaller towns and villages in Haute-Marne
With the 6 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 426 communes of Haute-Marne, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
398 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Haute-Marne
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Haute-Marne
What is the best place to live in Haute-Marne?
Nogent ranks first of 6 graded towns of 2,500 or more: cost of living (A+) and schools (A) are its strongest grades; health (C−) is its lowest. Chaumont and Joinville follow.
How do the biggest towns in Haute-Marne grade?
Saint-Dizier (22,858 people) grades C− overall, with its best grade in walkability. Chaumont (20,827 people) grades B overall, with its best grade in walkability.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Haute-Marne, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Haute-Marne on TownRatings?
Yes: all 426 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 6 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 22 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 398 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Photos: Nogent, C DIMEY 5252 (CC BY 4.0) · Chaumont, Chaumont52 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Joinville, C DIMEY 5252 (CC BY 4.0) · Wassy, Ji-Elle (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Langres, Vassil (Public domain) · Saint-Dizier, Lal.sacienne (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.