Find your town in Jura
Jura has 492 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; 37 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Jura is like
The median ranked town in Jura grades highest on walkability and cost of living against towns across France, and lowest on safety. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
5 of 11 (45%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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11 towns · ordered by Jura rank
2 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.
481 smaller towns and villages in Jura
With the 11 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 492 communes of Jura, 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.
444 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Jura
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Jura
What is the best place to live in Jura?
Arbois ranks first of 11 graded towns of 2,500 or more: schools (A+) and walkability (A) are its strongest grades; health (C+) is its lowest. Poligny and Tavaux follow.
How do the biggest towns in Jura grade?
Dole (23,840 people) grades B− overall, with its best grade in walkability. Lons-le-Saunier (16,618 people) grades C+ 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 Jura, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Jura on TownRatings?
Yes: all 492 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 37 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 444 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Photos: Arbois, Wikipedro (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Poligny, PRA (CC BY 2.5) · Tavaux, Florian (CC BY 2.0) · Champagnole, Wikipedro (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Les Rousses, Wikipedro (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Damparis, Wikipedro (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Hauts de Bienne, Naudinsylvain (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Montmorot, GenGavi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Claude, Wikipedro (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Dole, Florian Fèvre (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Lons-le-Saunier, photography taken by Christophe.Finot (CC BY-SA 3.0), 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.