Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,277 in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire.
Dordives grades C overall: better than 26% of compared French towns, and #37 of 43 in Loiret. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 13% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.1 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 overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Dordives does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Dordives 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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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Dordives: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 2023.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dordives.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 413 deaths in Dordives from 2016 to 2025; there were 468, 13% more. The nearest emergency department to Dordives is Centre hospitalier de Nemours, 8.8 mi away. In Loiret, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.4 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest collège is 2.9 mi away. Its schools’ results rank #43 of 48 in Loiret. General-bac pupils go 8.6 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Émile ChevallierNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 67 | 72%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
107 sales of houses and apartments in Dordives, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,867/m². Among the homes sold, 99% were houses. From July 2023 to June 2026, 107 homes were sold locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,869/m² | 106 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
11.6% of the labour force were unemployed, higher than both Loiret’s towns (10.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). 650 jobs are based in Dordives, for 1,350 working residents (0.5 per worker). At the census, 2.4% of working residents in Dordives didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 50 offenses in Dordives in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 4.7 cases of violence against people and 13.9 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Also worth knowing: the commonest graded crime locally was burglary (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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery and vehicle theft, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 8.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
People 65 and over make up a quarter of the town. Children under 15 make up 17%, below Loiret’s towns (18%) and close to compared French towns (17%). Residents of Dordives have a median age of 47.9.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Dordives | Loiret median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 30% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loiret median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Dordives is Château de Mez-le-Maréchal (ou Metz-le-Maréchal) et église du Mez. The oldest protected building goes back to the 12th century. 7.7% of its homes were built before 1919, about level with compared French towns (7.4%) and below Loiret’s towns (8.5%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Dordives has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Mez-le-Maréchal (ou Metz-le-Maréchal) et église du Mez: Photo: Digigramme · CC0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Dordives 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dordives | 3,277 | — | C | B+ | B | D |
| Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne | 4,952 | 3.1 | D | B | C+ | D |
| Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 3,149 | 3.2 | B− | B+ | B+ | B |
| Ferrières-en-Gâtinais | 3,839 | 3.4 | B− | B− | A− | C |
| Corquilleroy | 2,891 | 8.1 | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Châlette-sur-Loing | 12,677 | 9.1 | C− | C+ | C | C+ |
| Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 12,889 | 9.2 | D− | C | D | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #21 of 43 in Loiret. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 17 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 11% of compared French towns and #43 of 48 in Loiret. 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 €1,867/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Dordives grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire
Dordives is a commune of 3,277 people in the Communauté de communes des Quatre Vallées. 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.