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Population 6,528: a town in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Gueugnon’s strongest subject is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. With an A+ overall, Gueugnon is better than 98% of compared French towns. That places it #4 of 29 in Saône-et-Loire. School results are strong (A): brevet results 5 points above the expected rate. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for safety and C+ for jobs & income.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · employment, INSEE census 2023.
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 Gueugnon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Gueugnon 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.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Gueugnon, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 20th century; the first monument here was protected in 2015.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Gueugnon.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
At the median, a home went for €1,035/m², below both Saône-et-Loire’s towns (€1,438/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). A home here costs 3 years of the median income in Communauté de communes Entre Arroux, Loire et Somme. 222 houses and apartments changed hands in Gueugnon from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,061/m² | 196 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Ranked by results, schools here are #4 of 31 in Saône-et-Loire. The closest lycée for the general bac is 9.3 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jorge SemprunNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 108 | 95%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
38% of residents have reached 65. People aged 15 to 24 make up 7% of the town, below both Saône-et-Loire’s towns (9.5%) and compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by 14% 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.
| Gueugnon | Saône-et-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 38% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 32% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 31% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 14% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Saône-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Half of residents lived on more than €23,820 a year per consumption unit, about level with Saône-et-Loire’s towns (€24,330) and below compared French towns (€25,970). Jobs based in Gueugnon number 3,000, against 2,200 residents in work (1.4 per worker). No commute at all: 4.0% of working residents in the town at the census.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Gueugnon is Ch du Pays Charolais Brionnais, 9.7 mi away. 1,054 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 1,130: 7% below. Life expectancy in Saône-et-Loire: 85.5 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. This Saône-et-Loire town has 3 family doctors.
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.
Violence against people averaged 9 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 10. Police and gendarmerie recorded 139 offenses in Gueugnon in 2025. Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 · For vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 2.4% 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.
Protection here reaches back to the 20th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 7.2% of the total.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Gueugnon has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Gueugnon.
Géraldine Dutroncy: FreeCorp, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gueugnon | 6,528 | — | A+ | A+ | B | B+ |
| Digoin | 7,353 | 8.4 | B+ | A+ | C | B− |
| Paray-le-Monial | 9,291 | 11 | A+ | A− | A− | B |
| Sanvignes-les-Mines | 4,235 | 12 | A | A+ | A | C+ |
| Bourbon-Lancy | 4,674 | 14 | A+ | A+ | A | B |
| Saint-Vallier | 8,508 | 15 | B+ | A | A− | C− |
| Montceau-les-Mines | 17,064 | 15 | B− | A | C− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #17 of 29 in Saône-et-Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 27 burglaries and 42 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 95% of compared French towns and #4 of 31 in Saône-et-Loire. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Gueugnon grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Gueugnon is a commune of 6,528 people in the Communauté de communes Entre Arroux, Loire et Somme. 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.
