Find your arrondissement in Paris
Paris is a single commune, covered by its 20 arrondissements, each with its page and graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more.
What Paris is like
The median ranked town in Paris grades highest on walkability and jobs & income against towns across France, and lowest on cost of living. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
0 of 20 (0%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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20 towns · ordered by Paris rank
Départements next to Paris
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Paris
What is the best place to live in Paris?
Paris 15e ranks first of 20 graded towns of 2,500 or more: walkability (A+) and jobs & income (A) are its strongest grades; cost of living (D−) is its lowest. Paris 6e and Paris 7e follow.
How do the biggest towns in Paris grade?
Paris 15e (229,713 people) grades B+ overall, with its best grade in walkability. Paris 20e (185,140 people) grades C+ overall, with its best grade in walkability.
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 Paris, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Paris on TownRatings?
Yes: Paris is one commune, and each of its 20 arrondissements has its page, listed on this page.
Photos: Paris 15e, Jean-François Gornet from Paris, France (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Paris 6e, Mbzt (CC BY 3.0) · Paris 7e, King of Hearts (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Paris 5e, Camille Gévaudan (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Paris 16e, Cyberjunkie (CC BY 2.5) · Paris 14e, Stéphane Touraine (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Paris 11e, ParisSharing from Paris, France (CC BY 2.0) · Paris 3e, Chabe01 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Paris 17e, Loïc LLH (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Paris 4e, Jean-Christophe Windland (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Paris 9e, Daniel Stockman from Seattle, WA, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Paris 2e, Jebulon (CC0) · Paris 8e, Falcon® Photography from France, France (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Paris 12e, Danilo Samà · www.danilosama.ph (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Paris 13e, Arthur Weidmann from Paris, France (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Paris 1er, U.S. Department of State from United States (Public domain) · Paris 10e, Danilo Samà · www.danilosama.ph (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Paris 20e, Jean-Marie Vugnon (2) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Paris 18e, Danilo Samà · www.danilosama.ph (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Paris 19e, Mbzt (CC BY-SA 3.0), 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.