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It is a town of 20,594 residents in Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France. Just 15% of residents are 65 or older.
A strong record with one exception. Overall, Chaville earns a B: better than 58% of compared French towns, and #16 of 33 in Hauts-de-Seine. It is easy to get around without a car (A+): 100% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 62% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Add health to its strengths: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Housing is expensive: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 14.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for safety and C+ for schools.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · 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 3 things Chaville does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Chaville 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 Chaville as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Étangs de Corot et rigole d'État, in Ville-d'Avray, 0.9 mi away.
4.4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Chaville. Best known first.
MuseumManufacture nationale de Sèvres3.3 km northeast, in Sèvres
MuseumSalle du Jeu de paume4.8 km west, in Versailles
MuseumMusée départemental Albert-Kahn4.6 km northeast, in Boulogne-Billancourt
MuseumMusée des Années Trente4.8 km northeast, in Boulogne-Billancourt
MuseumMusée Lambinet4.3 km west, in Versailles
AttractionGrande Écurie4.4 km west, in VersaillesPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chaville.
7.5% of the labour force are out of work. Chaville holds 3,800 jobs; 10,750 of its residents are in work, so 0.4 jobs each. At the census, 3.5% of working residents in Chaville didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €5,648/m², near Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (€5,891/m²) and higher than compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses in Chaville sell for €7,143/m² and apartments for €5,409/m². Sales locally from July 2023 to June 2026: 663 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €7,143/m² | 150 |
| Apartments | €5,409/m² | 513 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graduates make up 64% of adults. Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24, near Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (12%) and higher than compared French towns (11%). Half the people of Chaville are older than 38.1.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hauts-de-Seine 52.4%, France 51.8%.
| Chaville | Hauts-de-Seine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 30% | 29% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 16% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 11% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 9.1% | 10% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 12% | 13% | 18% |
| Higher education | 64% | 63% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hauts-de-Seine median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Hauts-de-Seine is 87.6 years for women and 83.2 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 1,275 deaths in Chaville between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 1,543: 17% below. For a family doctor, residents of Chaville can choose among 19 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Chaville, 94.8% passed the bac, higher than both Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (93.2%) and compared French towns (92.9%). For exam results, it comes #14 of 35 in Hauts-de-Seine.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 157 | 99%±0 pts |
| Lycée Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 125 | 100%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jean MoulinBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 162 | 90%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
In all, 402 offenses reached the police record in Chaville in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 14.8 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 5.9 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (2025).
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, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 0.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Chaville is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
7 notable people were born in Chaville.
Philippe Soupault: Robert Delaunay, Public domain · Marcel Schwob: Paul Boyer, Public domain · Philippe Castelli: Tisourcier, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaville | 20,594 | — | B | D− | B− | A− |
| Viroflay Yvelines | 17,237 | 0.8 | A− | D− | A− | A+ |
| Ville-d'Avray | 11,089 | 1.1 | — | D− | — | A |
| Sèvres | 22,303 | 1.2 | B− | D− | C | A |
| Vélizy-Villacoublay Yvelines | 23,011 | 1.8 | B− | D | C− | A− |
| Meudon | 46,334 | 2.2 | C+ | D− | C | A |
| Versailles Yvelines | 84,095 | 2.2 | A− | D− | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #9 of 33 in Hauts-de-Seine. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 76 burglaries and 137 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 42% of compared French towns and #14 of 35 in Hauts-de-Seine. 100% of 125 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Saint-Thomas de Villeneuve in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chaville grades D− for cost of living.
Commune in Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France
Chaville is a commune of 20,594 people in the Métropole du Grand Paris. 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 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.