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1,460 people call this town in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté home.
Homes are affordable: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It also does well on walkability — 85% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Elsewhere it is close to typical: C+ for schools, B− for health and B− for jobs & income. The median home sells for €1,922/m².
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 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Champvans 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 one thing Champvans does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Champvans 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.
Champvans has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Champvans, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Champvans. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts de Dole4.3 km southeast, in Dole
GardenJardin à la Faulx3.8 km east, in Dole
MuseumCollège de l'Arc de Dole4.3 km east, in DoleAttractionAttractionCouvent des Cordeliers de Dole4.4 km southeast, in DoleChâteauChâteauChâteau de Parthey4.8 km south, in ChoiseyAttractionAttractionLabyrinthe maïs de Foucherans2 km southeast, in FoucheransPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Champvans.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 50 homes in Champvans. Houses were 92% of what sold. House rents are put at about €9.72/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,001/m² | 46 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
After tax and benefits, the median income is €27,140 a year per consumption unit. Champvans has 200 jobs for 650 working residents, 0.3 per worker. At the census, 8.3% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Jura’s towns (17.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Champvans, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
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.
A collège lies 2.1 mi away. At the lycées within 5 km of Champvans, 93.7% passed the bac, about level with both Jura’s towns (93.5%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Maryse BastiéNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 108 | 79%−7 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jacques DuhamelNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 272 | 96%±0 pts |
| Collège privé Notre-Dame de Mont-Roland PrivateBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 123 | 97%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
17% are under 15, higher than Jura’s towns (14%) and near compared French towns (17%). The 65-and-over age group makes up nearly a quarter of residents. Champvans has a median age of 44.7 years.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Champvans | Jura median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Jura median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Jura can expect 85.1 years and a boy 78.9 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 126 deaths in Champvans between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 142: 12% below. 3 GPs practise 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
More of the graded crimes in Champvans were burglary than anything else (2025). Its tally for 2025: 12 recorded offenses. Violence against people averaged 2.6 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 8.1.
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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 42.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Champvans has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Monument aux morts: Photo: FredSeiller · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Champvans as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Champvans has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 5 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 43% of compared French towns. 96% of 272 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Jacques Duhamel 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 Champvans grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Champvans is a commune of 1,460 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dole. 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.