Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
This town in Manche, Normandy has a population of 2,217.
Tessy-Bocage’s best grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Incomes are on the low side: 0.9 jobs per working resident; 10.1% unemployment. It is hard to get around without a car: 48% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The median price paid is €1,237/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Tessy-Bocage 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 Tessy-Bocage does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Tessy-Bocage 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.
Tessy-Bocage 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 Tessy-Bocage as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de l'Angotière, in Domjean, 2.2 mi away.
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Tessy-Bocage. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tessy-Bocage.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.60/m² a month, near Manche’s towns (€9.90/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). House rents are put at about €7.12/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 78 homes in Tessy-Bocage.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,237/m² | 78 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Manche, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 79 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 375 deaths in Tessy-Bocage from 2016 to 2025; there were 367, 2% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Tessy-Bocage is Centre hospitalier Memorial France Etats Unis St Lo, 9.8 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Tessy-Bocage can choose among 3 GPs.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 9.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Raymond QueneauNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 62 | 89%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Retirement age and beyond: 28% of residents are 65 or older. Children under 15 make up 16%, higher than Manche’s towns (13%) yet lower than compared French towns (17%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are a tenth of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
| Tessy-Bocage | Manche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 31% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Manche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Median disposable income comes to €23,940 a year per consumption unit. Unemployment stood at 10.1%, higher than Manche’s towns (8.8%) and near compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 6.3% of working residents in Tessy-Bocage at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
2025 saw 19 offenses recorded in Tessy-Bocage. Violence against people ran at 3.2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.9 (2023–2025 average). In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes here.
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, vehicle theft 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, 34.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Tessy-Bocage is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
4 notable people were born in Tessy-Bocage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tessy-Bocage | 2,217 | — | — | A | — | A |
| Torigny-les-Villes | 4,444 | 5.2 | A+ | A− | A | B− |
| Condé-sur-Vire | 4,137 | 5.9 | A+ | A− | A+ | B |
| Bourgvallées | 3,326 | 6.2 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Percy-en-Normandie | 2,641 | 6.9 | — | A | — | B+ |
| Saint-Amand-Villages | 2,525 | 7.2 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Noues de Sienne Calvados | 4,207 | 9.3 | B− | A | A | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Tessy-Bocage has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A−, better than 78% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Tessy-Bocage grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Manche, Normandy
Tessy-Bocage is a commune of 2,217 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Lô Agglo. 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.