Find your town in Nièvre
Nièvre has 309 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 13 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 27 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Nièvre is like
The median ranked town in Nièvre grades highest on cost of living and walkability against towns across France, and lowest on jobs & income. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
3 of 12 (25%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
Every town ranked by scoreThe full list for Nièvre, with what drives each gradeDépartement report cardHow Nièvre compares with France’s other départements, subject by subjectCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subjectFind a town that’s…
12 towns · ordered by Nièvre rank
3 of these towns have a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of their index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
Towns without an overall grade
Each has its page and the subject grades it has. In France an overall grade needs a Safety Grade, and five graded subjects in all.
296 smaller towns and villages in Nièvre
With the 13 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 309 communes of Nièvre, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
269 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Nièvre
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Nièvre
What is the best place to live in Nièvre?
Coulanges-lès-Nevers ranks first of 12 graded towns of 2,500 or more: safety (A+) and cost of living (A−) are its strongest grades; schools (C) is its lowest. Marzy and La Machine follow.
How do the biggest towns in Nièvre grade?
Nevers (33,085 people) grades C overall, with its best grade in walkability. Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (9,733 people) grades B overall, with its best grade in cost of living.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Nièvre, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Nièvre on TownRatings?
Yes: all 309 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 13 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 27 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 269 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
The ranking covers towns of 2,500 or more with an overall grade. Guérigny has no overall grade; its page shows the grades it has, and why.
Photos: Coulanges-lès-Nevers, Johan Boulet (CC BY 4.0) · Marzy, Vertpays (CC BY-SA 4.0) · La Machine, A.BourgeoisP (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Garchizy, Sabichouquette (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Varennes-Vauzelles, Original uploader was Olivier2000 at fr.wikipedia (CC BY-SA 1.0) · La Charité-sur-Loire, Rolf Kranz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Cjp24 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Fourchambault, Florian Pépellin (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Decize, Chau7 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Imphy, Yhpmi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Nevers, Original: Jochen Jahnke at German Wikipedia Modifications: … (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Clamecy, Antoine Rex (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.