Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,284 in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
At the median price of €1,975/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dole. Households here earn well: 0.9 jobs per working resident; 7.3% unemployment. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for schools, B for health and B for walkability. Homes change hands at a median €1,975/m².
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Foucherans 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 Foucherans does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Foucherans 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.
Foucherans 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 Foucherans as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix de chemin, in Choisey, 1.2 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Foucherans. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts de Dole2.8 km east, in Dole
MuseumCollège de l'Arc de Dole3.1 km northeast, in Dole
GardenJardin à la Faulx3.7 km northeast, in DoleAttractionAttractionCouvent des Cordeliers de Dole3.1 km east, in DoleChâteauChâteauChâteau de Parthey2.5 km southwest, in ChoiseyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Foucherans.
The under-15s are 17% of the population here. People 65 and over make up 26% of the town, near Jura’s towns (27%) and higher than compared French towns (22%). Foucherans has a median age of 45.7.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Foucherans | Jura median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 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.
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. From 2016 to 2025, 325 residents of Foucherans died, against 311 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% more. Its care home for older people (75 places) counts its residents as Foucherans’; allowing for it, deaths were 16% below expected. This Jura town has 2 family doctors.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Of those in the labour force, 7.3% are unemployed. Bus, tram or train carried 2.7% of working residents in Foucherans to work at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €25,940 a year per consumption unit, in line with Jura’s towns (€24,890) and compared French towns (€25,970).
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.
Among the homes sold, 75% were houses. Foucherans recorded 79 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €9.72/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,053/m² | 59 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 86% passed the bac pro, of 209 candidates at 3 lycées. The town’s pupils have a collège 0.7 mi away. The bac pass rate near Foucherans is 93.7%, near 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
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 4.6 violent offenses and 6.5 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In all, 24 offenses reached the police record in Foucherans in 2025. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (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 other physical 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 (25.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Foucherans is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Foucherans yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Foucherans has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 10 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 48% 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.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.02/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Foucherans grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Foucherans is a commune of 2,284 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.