Find your town in Haute-Saône
Haute-Saône has 536 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 11 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 29 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Haute-Saône is like
The median ranked town in Haute-Saône grades highest on cost of living and safety against towns across France, and lowest on schools. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
2 of 11 (18%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
Every town ranked by scoreThe full list for Haute-Saône, with what drives each gradeDépartement report cardHow Haute-Saône compares with France’s other départements, subject by subjectCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subjectFind a town that’s…
11 towns · ordered by Haute-Saône rank
5 of these towns have a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of their index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
525 smaller towns and villages in Haute-Saône
With the 11 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 536 communes of Haute-Saône, 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.
496 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Haute-Saône
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-Saône
What is the best place to live in Haute-Saône?
Port-sur-Saône ranks first of 11 graded towns of 2,500 or more: cost of living (A+) and safety (A−) are its strongest grades; health (C) is its lowest. Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert and Échenoz-la-Méline follow.
How do the biggest towns in Haute-Saône grade?
Vesoul (15,078 people) grades C− overall, with its best grade in walkability. Héricourt (10,621 people) grades C+ overall, with its best grade in cost of living.
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-Saône, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Haute-Saône on TownRatings?
Yes: all 536 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 11 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 29 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 496 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Photos: Port-sur-Saône, Portsursaone70 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert, Rauenstein (Public domain) · Échenoz-la-Méline, Sergevieille (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Champagney, A.BourgeoisP (CC BY 4.0) · Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse, Espirat (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Lure, A.BourgeoisP (CC BY 4.0) · Ronchamp, A.BourgeoisP (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Héricourt, Jérôme METTETAL (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Gray, Zresdgpu (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Luxeuil-les-Bains, Espirat (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Vesoul, Ghkkj (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.