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3,888 people live in this town in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Strong across the board. Work and incomes are strong: 2.1 jobs per working resident; 6.9% unemployment. Buying 70 m² at the median €1,619/m² takes 4.5 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dole. Residents are healthier than most (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The overall grade comes out at A, #3 of 11 in Jura. Set against the rest, it does better than 91% of compared French towns. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for safety, B− for schools and B− for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Tavaux does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Tavaux 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.
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On the Culture ministry’s list, Tavaux counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 20th century; the first monument here was protected in 2023.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tavaux.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
484 deaths in Tavaux between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 551: 12% below. In Jura, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.1 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Tavaux is Ch Louis Pasteur Dole, 4 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.26/m² a month, close to Jura’s towns (€10.38/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €9.80/m² a month. Houses were 84% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,640/m² | 134 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Retirement age and beyond: 25% of residents are 65 or older. Children under 15 make up 16%, above Jura’s towns (14%) but below compared French towns (17%). Degrees are held by just over a quarter of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Tavaux | Jura median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Jura median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 20th century. Among the classé monuments in Tavaux is Église paroissiale Sainte-Anne, presbytère de la cité Solvay et les aménagements paysagers. Homes from before 1919 make up 6.4% of the total, below Jura’s towns (9.5%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Tavaux. For 2025, the figures show 84 offenses locally. The town comes 3rd of the 11 compared towns in Jura on the Safety Grade. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 10.2 cases of violence against people and 9.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 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, 3.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 3.8 mi away. Ranked by results, schools here are #5 of 11 in Jura.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège des Vernaux Marius DaubigneyNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 61 | 89%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Half of residents lived on more than €26,660 a year per consumption unit, above Jura’s towns (€24,890) and close to compared French towns (€25,970). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how just over one in ten commuters travelled at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Tavaux has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Tavaux as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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It grades B for safety, #3 of 11 in Jura. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 16 burglaries and 28 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 49% of compared French towns and #5 of 11 in Jura. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Tavaux grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Jura, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Tavaux is a commune of 3,888 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 November 4, 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.