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A town of 2,162 in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 7.8% unemployment. It is easy to get around without a car: just over nine in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 16% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €3,052/m², so 70 m² costs 6.6 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Fontainebleau. Where it falls short is schools — brevet results 7 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Chailly-en-Bière 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 Chailly-en-Bière 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.
Chailly-en-Bière has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Chailly-en-Bière does most differently from other towns.
Chailly-en-Bière has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1926.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
The list names few of Chailly-en-Bière’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Auberge du Cheval Blanc: Photo: Poudou99 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chailly-en-Bière.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the collèges within 5 km of Chailly-en-Bière, 85.0% passed the brevet, near Seine-et-Marne’s towns (84.0%) and lower than compared French towns (87.5%). The closest lycée for the general bac is 4 mi off. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.4 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Christine de PisanNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 127 | 85%−7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
At the census, 15.9% of commuters got to work without a car. Unemployment stood at 7.8%, below both Seine-et-Marne’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
80 sales of houses and apartments in Chailly-en-Bière, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €3,052/m². House rents are put at about €13.78/m² a month. Houses made up 91% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,036/m² | 73 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 172 deaths in Chailly-en-Bière from 2016 to 2025; there were 145, 16% fewer. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 84 per 100 expected, about level with Seine-et-Marne’s towns (87) and below compared French towns (88). Women in Seine-et-Marne live to 85.4 on average and men to 81 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 18th century. Chailly-en-Bière has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Children under 15 make up 16%, below Seine-et-Marne’s towns (20%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Aged 15 to 24: just over one in ten residents. 21% of residents are 65 or over.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Seine-et-Marne 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Chailly-en-Bière | Seine-et-Marne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 13% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 26% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 15% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-et-Marne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people averaged 3 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 13.5. Over 2025, Chailly-en-Bière logged 23 recorded offenses. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Chailly-en-Bière (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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, 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, 29.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Chailly-en-Bière. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Chailly-en-Bière as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Chailly-en-Bière is a commune of 2,162 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Fontainebleau. 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 →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chailly-en-Bière | 2,162 | — | — | C | — | B |
| Dammarie-les-Lys | 23,559 | 3.7 | D− | D | C | C+ |
| Boissise-le-Roi | 3,941 | 4 | B− | D | B | A− |
| Bois-le-Roi | 6,072 | 4.2 | B | D | B | A |
| La Rochette | 3,932 | 4.3 | C+ | D | B | B+ |
| Pringy | 3,864 | 4.5 | C | D | B+ | C+ |
| Chartrettes | 2,633 | 4.7 | — | C | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Chailly-en-Bière has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 12% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,052/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chailly-en-Bière grades C 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.