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A town of 1,118 in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire.
Billy has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 30% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Billy does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Billy 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, Billy 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 11th century; the first monument here was protected in 1920.
16% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Billy.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,229/m²: 49 houses and apartments sold in Billy between July 2023 and June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €8.59/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 49 homes were sold locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,229/m² | 49 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €24,130 a year per consumption unit. 4.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Loir-et-Cher’s towns (10.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). The jobless rate is 6.2%. Per resident in work, Billy counts 0.4 jobs (200 jobs, 450 workers).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 10.2 mi off. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège les PressignyNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 77 | 91%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 89 residents of Billy died, against 96 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 7% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Billy is Ch Romorantin Lanthenay, 9.6 mi away. Average lifespans in Loir-et-Cher: 85.2 years for women, 80.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Billy is Église Saint-Symphorien. The protected list starts in the 11th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, close to Loir-et-Cher’s towns (8.9%) and below compared French towns (11%). Those 65 and older account for just over a fifth of residents. Graduates make up 19% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loir-et-Cher 52.4%, France 51.8%.
| Billy | Loir-et-Cher median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loir-et-Cher median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie figures for Billy show 32 offenses in 2025. Violence against people ran at 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 15 (2023–2025 average). In 2025, burglary 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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 52.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Billy has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Symphorien: Photo: Daniel Jolivet · CC BY 2.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Billy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy | 1,118 | — | — | A | — | C+ |
| Selles-sur-Cher | 4,184 | 2.5 | B+ | A+ | C | C+ |
| Chabris Indre | 2,740 | 6.7 | — | A | — | C |
| Noyers-sur-Cher | 2,631 | 7 | C | A− | B | C− |
| Saint-Aignan | 2,789 | 8.9 | B | A | D | A |
| Romorantin-Lanthenay | 18,373 | 10 | C− | B+ | C | C− |
| Villefranche-sur-Cher | 2,678 | 11 | B | A | A− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Billy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 12 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 92% 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 €1,229/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Billy grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
Billy is a commune of 1,118 people in the Communauté de communes du Romorantinais et du Monestois. 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.