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This town in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has a population of 1,528.
Bletterans’s standout strength is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Fewer journeys need a car (A): 88% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C): 2 jobs per working resident; 15.9% unemployment. Schools are weaker too: brevet results 2 points below the expected rate.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Bletterans 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.
The 3 things Bletterans does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bletterans 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.
Bletterans has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bletterans as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix du cimetière, in Lombard, 3.7 mi away.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bletterans.
Bletterans has 1,100 jobs for 550 working residents, 2 per worker. Half of residents lived on more than €23,520 a year per consumption unit, below Jura’s towns (€24,890) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. No commute at all: 5.1% of working residents locally at the census.
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.
The median price, €1,743/m², comes from 41 sales of houses and apartments in Bletterans from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses accounted for nine in ten sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,758/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children are 14% of the town. 32% of residents are 65 or over, above both Jura’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (22%). The 15-to-24 age group makes up nearly one in ten residents.
54% women, 46% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Bletterans | Jura median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Jura median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 6.7 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du ParcNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 86 | 86%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
2025 saw 26 offenses recorded in Bletterans. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 8.1 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 15.8. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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 family violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (16.1% of the index here). That estimated share passes 10%, so treat this Safety Grade with more caution than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Jura is 85.1 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Its two care homes for older people (97 places) count their residents as Bletterans’; allowing for them, deaths were 14% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Bletterans is Ch Lons, 6.9 mi away. There are 17 general practitioners locally.
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.
Heritage and family days out in and near Bletterans. Best known first.
Nothing in Bletterans is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Bletterans.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bletterans | 1,528 | — | — | A | C+ | B |
| Montmorot | 3,261 | 6.1 | B | B | C− | B |
| Lons-le-Saunier | 16,618 | 7.2 | C+ | B+ | D | B− |
| Louhans-Châteaurenaud Saône-et-Loire | 6,446 | 13 | B | A− | C− | C+ |
| Poligny | 3,976 | 14 | A+ | A | C+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 34% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,743/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Bletterans grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bletterans is a commune of 1,528 people in the Communauté de communes Bresse Haute Seille. 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 October 30, 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.