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5,955 residents make their home in this town in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a strength (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Put together, the subjects come to an A overall, ranking #13 of 29 in Saône-et-Loire. Nationally, it does better than 85% of compared French towns. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for schools, C+ for jobs & income and B− for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Blanzy does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Blanzy 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Blanzy; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1993.
Jean Thomasset, born in 1895, is the one person born in Blanzy before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Blanzy.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Homes sold for a median €1,250/m², below Saône-et-Loire’s towns (€1,438/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. The market in Blanzy: 147 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses accounted for 97% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,262/m² | 143 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 15% of residents. 8.3% of the population is aged 15 to 24, lower than both Saône-et-Loire’s towns (9.5%) and compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by nearly a fifth of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Saône-et-Loire 52.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Blanzy | Saône-et-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 31% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Saône-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 650 deaths in Blanzy from 2016 to 2025; there were 593, 9% fewer. Women in Saône-et-Loire live to 85.5 on average and men to 78.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Also worth knowing: there are 3 general practitioners in the town.
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.
More of the graded crimes in Blanzy were burglary than anything else (2025). Its tally for 2025: 120 recorded offenses. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 5.5 violent offenses and 12.1 graded property crimes a year.
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 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 (3.1% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 18th century. Before 1919: that is when nearly one in ten homes were built.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For collège, the closest is 1.5 mi away. At the lycées within 5 km of Blanzy, 92.7% passed the bac, below Saône-et-Loire’s towns (94.3%) and close to compared French towns (92.9%). By results, schools here place #26 of 31 in Saône-et-Loire.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Antoine de Saint-ExupéryNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 92 | 82%−5 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Henri ParriatNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 275 | 95%±0 pts |
| Collège Saint-Gilbert - site de Montcenis PrivateBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 94 | 96%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Jobs based in Blanzy number 2,450, against 2,100 residents in work (1.2 per worker). At the census, 3.3% of working residents in Blanzy went to work by public transport. The median disposable income was €24,580 a year per consumption unit, near Saône-et-Loire’s towns (€24,330) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Blanzy. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la mine de Blanzyin townChâteauChâteauChâteau du Plessisin townChâteauChâteauChâteau du Monay4 km northeast, in Saint-EusèbeWater parkWater parkCentre nautique2.4 km south, in Montceau-les-MinesPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Blanzy has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château du Plessis: Photo: Mstval71 · CC BY-SA 3.0
5 notable people were born in Blanzy.
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt: G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blanzy | 5,955 | — | A | A | B+ | B+ |
| Montceau-les-Mines | 17,064 | 2 | B− | A | C− | B− |
| Saint-Vallier | 8,508 | 3.7 | B+ | A | A− | C− |
| Montchanin | 4,976 | 5.1 | B+ | B+ | B | C |
| Sanvignes-les-Mines | 4,235 | 5.2 | A | A+ | A | C+ |
| Torcy | 2,678 | 6.1 | B+ | A− | B+ | A− |
| Le Creusot | 20,509 | 7.3 | C+ | A | C | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #14 of 29 in Saône-et-Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 46 burglaries and 28 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 45% of compared French towns and #26 of 31 in Saône-et-Loire. 95% of 275 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Henri Parriat in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Blanzy grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Blanzy is a commune of 5,955 people in the Communauté urbaine Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines. 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.