Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 2,441 residents, it is a town in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est.
Piennes’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. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: 51% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 10% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Health is its weak spot: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on jobs & income as well (D−) — 0.6 jobs per working resident; 17.1% unemployment.
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 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Piennes 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 Piennes 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.
Piennes has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Piennes does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Piennes as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de Mont, in Mont-Bonvillers, 2.8 mi away.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Piennes is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Piennes.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Meurthe-et-Moselle: 84.7 years for women, 79.2 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. 260 deaths in Piennes between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 219: 19% above. The nearest emergency department to Piennes is Centre hospitalier de Briey Hopital Maillot, 7.7 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 · 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.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.35/m² a month, below both Meurthe-et-Moselle’s towns (€11.08/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses accounted for 87% of sales, apartments for the rest. Renting a house costs an estimated €9.43/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,294/m² | 78 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Of the graded crimes in Piennes, criminal damage came up most often (2025). Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 12.4 cases of violence against people and 13.1 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Police and gendarmerie recorded 57 offenses in the town in 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 · When sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (10.0% of the index here). That estimated share passes 10%, so treat this Safety Grade with more caution than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Median disposable income is €22,210 a year for each consumption unit. At the census, 9.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Meurthe-et-Moselle’s towns (15.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
19% of residents are children under 15. People aged 15 to 24 make up 12% of the town, higher than both Meurthe-et-Moselle’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). The 65-and-over age group makes up a fifth of residents.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Meurthe-et-Moselle 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Piennes | Meurthe-et-Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 13% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Meurthe-et-Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul LangevinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 58 | 86%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
3 notable people were born in Piennes.
Commune in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est
Piennes is a commune of 2,441 people in the Communauté de communes Coeur du Pays Haut. 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
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
They grade B, better than 56% 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 Piennes grades A− for cost of living.
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.