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1,204 people call this town in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté home.
Households here earn well: 1.4 jobs per working resident; 5.8% unemployment. Getting around depends on the car (D).
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Courlaoux 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.
Each subject compares Courlaoux 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.
Courlaoux has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Courlaoux has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1927.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Courlaoux.
Unemployment stood at 5.8%, below both Jura’s towns (10.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 2.9% of working residents in Courlaoux at the census. Median disposable income comes to €25,870 a year per consumption unit.
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.
Houses made up 89% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 27 homes in Courlaoux.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
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. From 2016 to 2025, 67 residents of Courlaoux died, against 85 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Courlaoux is Ch Lons, 4.5 mi away.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 16th century. 11% of homes date from before 1919.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Graduates make up nearly a quarter of adults. Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24, lower than both Jura’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 21% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Courlaoux | Jura median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Jura median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Courlaoux was family violence (2025). The town has 750 jobs for 550 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. Violence against people averaged 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 6.8. For 2025, the figures show 10 offenses here.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, 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 (49.4% of the index here). 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. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Courlaoux has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Croix de cimetière: Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Courlaoux yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Courlaoux | 1,204 | — | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Montmorot | 3,261 | 3.5 | B | B | C− | B |
| Lons-le-Saunier | 16,618 | 4.8 | C+ | B+ | D | B− |
| Louhans-Châteaurenaud Saône-et-Loire | 6,446 | 11 | B | A− | C− | C+ |
| Poligny | 3,976 | 17 | A+ | A | C+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Courlaoux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Commune in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Courlaoux is a commune of 1,204 people in the Communauté d'agglomération ECLA (Espace Communautaire Lons Agglomération). 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) · 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.