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In Manche, Normandy, this town has 2,605 residents. Over-65s are 32% of the population.
Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 35% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Add cost of living to its strengths (A) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Most journeys need a car: 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes go for a median €1,565/m².
Grandparigny has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Grandparigny does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Grandparigny 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.
Grandparigny has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Grandparigny; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 1939.
Wikidata records 2 people born in Grandparigny before 1900, the earliest Christian Cherfils, in 1858.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Grandparigny.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 408 deaths in Grandparigny from 2016 to 2025; there were 333, 18% fewer. Average lifespans in Manche: 85.5 years for women, 79 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. 2 GPs practise in the town.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses made up 96% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. The market in Grandparigny: 84 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,592/m² | 81 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Per resident in work, Grandparigny counts 0.4 jobs (450 jobs, 1,050 workers). 5.2% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Manche’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. At the census, 3.6% of working residents in Grandparigny didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 17% of adults. Children under 15 make up 13%, close to Manche’s towns (13%) and below compared French towns (17%). The median resident of Grandparigny is 54.9 years old.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Manche 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Grandparigny | Manche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.4% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 32% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Manche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Grandparigny is 95.0%, close to Manche’s towns (94.3%) and above compared French towns (92.9%). The nearest collège is 1.3 mi away. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 7.1 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules VerneNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 75 | 85%±0 pts |
| Lycée Claude LehecNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 64 | 95%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 6.9% of the total, lower than both Manche’s towns (12%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The earliest of these monuments dates from the 15th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage in and near Grandparigny. Best known first.
The list names few of Grandparigny’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Grandparigny.
Simonne Caillère: Studio Harcourt, Public domain · Christian Cherfils: Edgar Degas, Public domain · Victor Gastebois: Eilamona, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grandparigny | 2,605 | — | — | A | — | A+ |
| Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët | 5,770 | 2.4 | A− | A | C | B |
| Isigny-le-Buat | 3,183 | 4.9 | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Mortain-Bocage | 2,961 | 6.6 | A− | A+ | C | A− |
| Louvigné-du-Désert Ille-et-Vilaine | 3,346 | 8 | A | A | B | B |
| Ducey-Les Chéris | 2,784 | 9.5 | A+ | B+ | A+ | C+ |
| Sourdeval | 3,026 | 12 | — | A+ | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Grandparigny has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.9 recorded violent incidents and 3.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B+, better than 74% of compared French towns and #13 of 29 in Manche. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Grandparigny grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Manche, Normandy
Grandparigny is a commune of 2,605 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. 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.