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This town in Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has a population of 1,085.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 15% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car: 23% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C−): 0.1 jobs per working resident; 8.1% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Saint-Barthélemy 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 Saint-Barthélemy 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.
Saint-Barthélemy has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Saint-Barthélemy does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Barthélemy as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut, in Ronchamp, 2.9 mi away.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Barthélemy 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 Saint-Barthélemy.
3.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Haute-Saône’s towns (11.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). After tax and benefits, the median income is €25,650 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 4.7% of working residents in Saint-Barthélemy didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Haute-Saône, women can expect to live 84.7 years and men 78.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 91 deaths in Saint-Barthélemy from 2016 to 2025; there were 105, 15% more. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Barthélemy is Gh Haute Saone site Lure, 5.6 mi away.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €8.55/m² a month, close to Haute-Saône’s towns (€8.86/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The sales split: 97% houses, the rest apartments. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 31 homes in Saint-Barthélemy.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,208/m² | 30 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graduates make up 18% of adults. The 15-to-24 age group makes up just over one in ten residents. Half of Saint-Barthélemy is older than 49.2, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Saône 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Barthélemy | Haute-Saône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 34% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Saône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The town’s pupils have a collège 1.1 mi away. The closest lycée for the general bac is 5.4 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège des Mille ÉtangsNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 77 | 88%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Family days out, heritage and other places to visit in and near Saint-Barthélemy. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Barthélemy yet.
Commune in Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Saint-Barthélemy is a commune of 1,085 people in the Communauté de communes des 1000 étangs. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Barthélemy | 1,085 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Ronchamp | 2,737 | 3.4 | C+ | A+ | A− | D |
| Champagney | 3,647 | 5.2 | B | A | A+ | C− |
| Lure | 7,877 | 5.5 | B− | A | D | C− |
| Giromagny Territoire de Belfort | 2,907 | 11 | C+ | A | B− | C |
| Luxeuil-les-Bains | 6,663 | 11 | C− | A | D | C− |
| Le Thillot Vosges | 3,167 | 13 | A | A | B | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Barthélemy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 3.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B−, better than 51% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saint-Barthélemy grades A 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.