Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
1,477 people call this town in Marne, Grand Est home.
It is hard to get around without a car: 69% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €2,400/m² costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Bourgogne-Fresne 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.
Each subject compares Bourgogne-Fresne 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.
Bourgogne-Fresne has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Bourgogne-Fresne has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1921.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bourgogne-Fresne.
At the census, 5.9% of commuters got to work without a car. The median disposable income was €30,330 a year per consumption unit, above Marne’s towns (€24,755) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 186 deaths in Bourgogne-Fresne from 2016 to 2025; there were 204, 10% more. The nearest emergency department to Bourgogne-Fresne is American Memorial Hospital Chu Reims, 8.6 mi away. There is one general practitioner here. Women in Marne live to 84.9 on average and men to 79.4 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across 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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Bourgogne-Fresne is Mausolée de Bourgogne. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. 5.2% of its homes were built before 1919, between Marne’s towns (4.8%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
41 sales of houses and apartments in Bourgogne-Fresne, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,400/m². Houses are advertised at an estimated €8.59/m² a month. The estimated advertised rent is €11.25/m² a month, about level with Marne’s towns (€10.89/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,506/m² | 38 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 19% of residents. 8.1% of residents are 15 to 24, below Marne’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. The median resident of Bourgogne-Fresne is 45.5 years old.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Marne 52.7%, France 51.8%.
| Bourgogne-Fresne | Marne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Marne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Of the graded crimes in Bourgogne-Fresne, burglary came up most often (2025). 6 offenses were reported in Bourgogne-Fresne during 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 5.3 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 1.8 (2023–2025 average).
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 · When family violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (80.8% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Bourgogne-Fresne. Best known first.
The list names few of Bourgogne-Fresne’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Mausolée de Bourgogne: Photo: Zairon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Bourgogne-Fresne as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourgogne-Fresne | 1,477 | — | — | C+ | — | B |
| Witry-lès-Reims | 4,950 | 4.3 | B+ | C− | B | C+ |
| Bétheny | 6,975 | 4.6 | B | C | C+ | A+ |
| Warmeriville | 2,749 | 6.3 | B | B− | A+ | C |
| Reims | 177,674 | 7 | D− | C− | D | C+ |
| Saint-Brice-Courcelles | 3,566 | 7.1 | C | C | C− | C+ |
| Villeneuve-sur-Aisne Aisne | 2,792 | 7.6 | — | A− | — | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bourgogne-Fresne has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,400/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bourgogne-Fresne grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Marne, Grand Est
Bourgogne-Fresne is a commune of 1,477 people in the Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims. 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 9, 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.