Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
In Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, this town has 46,324 residents.
A good place to live, if you can afford it. Jobs & income is where it shines — 1.4 jobs per working resident; 9.7% unemployment. At A− overall, Montrouge is better than 78% of compared French towns and ranks #3 of 33 in Hauts-de-Seine. Walkability is another plus (A+): 100% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 77% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. What counts against it is cost of living (D−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 18 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B for safety and B− for schools.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 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.
Each subject compares Montrouge 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.
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The 2 things Montrouge does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Montrouge; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 20th century; the first monument here was protected in 2006.
Wikidata records 12 people born in Montrouge before 1900, the earliest Armand Després, in 1834.
Montrouge has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montrouge.
Half of residents lived on more than €34,480 a year per consumption unit, near Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (€35,370) and higher than compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 3.7% of working residents in Montrouge at the census. A tenth of people in the labour force have no job.
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.
Advertised rents are estimated at €26.52/m² a month, above both Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (€24.55/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses in Montrouge sell for €9,862/m² and apartments for €7,161/m². House rents are put at about €21.60/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €9,862/m² | 72 |
| Apartments | €7,161/m² | 1,771 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Hauts-de-Seine, life expectancy at birth reaches 87.6 years for women and 83.2 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Montrouge come to 71 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 3,740 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 2,979, 20% fewer.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
People 65 and over make up 16% of the town, close to Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (16%) and below compared French towns (22%). Among adults, 64% have a degree. Montrouge has a median age of 37.8 years.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hauts-de-Seine 52.4%, France 51.8%.
| Montrouge | Hauts-de-Seine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 34% | 29% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 16% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 11% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 9.7% | 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
Recorded offenses in Montrouge came to 739 in 2025. Jobs outnumber working residents in Montrouge (33,550 to 24,050): it draws people in from around. Violence against people ran at 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 13.3 (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 · When armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (0.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 20th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 6.1% of the total, higher than Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (5.2%) yet lower than compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Montrouge, 94.2% of lycée candidates passed the bac, about level with Hauts-de-Seine’s towns (93.2%) and above compared French towns (92.9%). The town’s schools place #6 of 35 in Hauts-de-Seine on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 103 | 99%±0 pts |
| Lycée Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 66 | 98%±0 pts |
| LP Gaston BachelardBest against expectations: 18 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 37 | 86%+18 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Montrouge. Best known first.
AttractionCathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris4.9 km northeast, in Paris 4e
MuseumHerbier4.4 km northeast, in Paris 5e
AttractionPanthéon4.1 km northeast, in Paris 5e
AttractionHôtel des Invalides4.6 km north, in Paris 7e
AttractionUniversité Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne4.3 km northeast, in Paris 5e
ChurchSainte-Chapelle5 km northeast, in Paris 1erPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
39 notable people were born in Montrouge.
Henri Mouillefarine: Agence Rol, Public domain · Jacques Dynam: Sunset Boulevard / Corbis Historical, Public domain · Zoé Clauzure: Ville de Montrouge, CC BY 3.0 · William Grover-Williams: Le Sport Universel Illustré, Public domain · André Cassagnes: Pmau, CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune in Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France
Montrouge is a commune of 46,324 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montrouge | 46,324 | — | A− | D− | B | A |
| Malakoff | 30,557 | 0.9 | C+ | D− | C | B+ |
| Arcueil Val-de-Marne | 22,200 | 1 | C− | D− | C− | B+ |
| Paris 14e Paris | 136,455 | 1.1 | B | D− | C | A− |
| Gentilly Val-de-Marne | 19,963 | 1.2 | C | D− | C | B+ |
| Bagneux | 44,572 | 1.3 | D | D− | C+ | B |
| Vanves | 28,622 | 1.4 | B+ | D− | B | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #5 of 33 in Hauts-de-Seine. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 54 burglaries and 301 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 50% of compared French towns and #6 of 35 in Hauts-de-Seine. 98% of 66 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Jeanne d'Arc 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 Montrouge grades D− 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.