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Homes go for a median €1,000/m². A town in Manche, Normandy, home to 1,674 people.
Where it does best is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is hard to get around without a car: just over a quarter of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The local economy is weaker than most: 0.9 jobs per working resident; 8.2% unemployment. 15% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Juvigny les Vallées 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 2 things Juvigny les Vallées does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Juvigny les Vallées 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.
Juvigny les Vallées 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 Juvigny les Vallées as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye Blanche, in Mortain-Bocage, 3.8 mi away.
30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Juvigny les Vallées.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €1,000/m², lower than both Manche’s towns (€1,814/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). The sales split: 98% houses, the rest apartments. 107 houses and apartments changed hands in Juvigny les Vallées from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,000/m² | 105 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 8.2%, lower than both Manche’s towns (8.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 5.8% of commuters got to work without a car.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Under-15s account for 15% of the population. The 15-to-24 age group: 8.1%, lower than both Manche’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). 27% of residents have reached 65.
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Manche 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Juvigny les Vallées | Manche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 36% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 13% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Manche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Manche live to 85.5 on average and men to 79 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 219 deaths in Juvigny les Vallées from 2016 to 2025; there were 185, 15% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Juvigny les Vallées is Centre hospitalier de Saint Hilaire du Harcouet, 8.3 mi away. There is one general practitioner locally.
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 C to A−.
Violence against people ran at 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 5.6 (2023–2025 average). Recorded offenses in Juvigny les Vallées came to 15 in 2025. The graded crime recorded most locally was family violence (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, burglary 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, 40.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Juvigny les Vallées 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 Juvigny les Vallées 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juvigny les Vallées | 1,674 | — | — | A+ | — | B |
| Mortain-Bocage | 2,961 | 5.5 | A− | A+ | C | A− |
| Sourdeval | 3,026 | 5.7 | — | A+ | — | B− |
| Grandparigny | 2,605 | 6.3 | — | A | — | A+ |
| Isigny-le-Buat | 3,183 | 8.3 | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët | 5,770 | 8.6 | A− | A | C | B |
| Noues de Sienne Calvados | 4,207 | 11 | B− | A | A | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Juvigny les Vallées has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Juvigny les Vallées grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Manche, Normandy
Juvigny les Vallées is a commune of 1,674 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 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.