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The town has 2,136 residents and lies in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France.
Work and incomes are strong (A−): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment. Its lowest grade is for cost of living (D) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools are weaker too (C−) — bac results 2.1 points below the expected rate; brevet results 4.7 points below the expected rate. Homes change hands at a median €3,693/m².
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Pontcarré 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 Pontcarré 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.
Pontcarré has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Pontcarré does most differently from other towns.
Pontcarré has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 19th century; the first monument here was protected in 1997.
Pontcarré has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
Domaine de Ferrières: Photo: Thor19 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Domaine du château de Ferrières-en-Brie: Photo: Thor19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Pontcarré.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses sell for €3,675/m² in Pontcarré, apartments for €3,719/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €17.45/m² a month, about level with Seine-et-Marne’s towns (€16.75/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The market in the town: 95 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,675/m² | 59 |
| Apartments | €3,719/m² | 36 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 6.0%, lower than both Seine-et-Marne’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, nearly a fifth of commuters got to work without a car.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 count for 21% of the people here. Those 65 and older account for 15% of residents. Degrees are held by 35% of adults.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Seine-et-Marne 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Pontcarré | Seine-et-Marne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 13% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 26% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 15% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 35% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-et-Marne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the 2 vocational lycées within 5 km, 85% of 249 candidates passed the bac pro. 93.2% of candidates passed the bac at the lycées within 5 km of Pontcarré, about level with compared French towns (92.9%) and above Seine-et-Marne’s towns (90.8%). A collège lies 1.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Eugène DelacroixNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 160 | 84%−6 pts |
| Lycée Charles le ChauveNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 429 | 93%−3 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Maurice Rondeau PrivateBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 78 | 94%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Seine-et-Marne live to 85.4 on average and men to 81 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 105 deaths in Pontcarré between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 135: 23% below. For a family doctor, residents of Pontcarré have one GP on hand.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Graded property crimes ran at 15.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 3 (2023–2025 average). Police and gendarmerie recorded 29 offenses in Pontcarré in 2025. Of the graded crimes in the town, criminal damage came up most often (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 and vehicle theft, 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, 21.8% of the index here. As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 19th century. Among the classé monuments in Pontcarré is Domaine du château de Ferrières-en-Brie. Homes from before 1919 make up 5.9% of the total, between Seine-et-Marne’s towns (5.4%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Pontcarré. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Pontcarré yet.
Commune in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Pontcarré is a commune of 2,136 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Marne et Gondoire. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontcarré | 2,136 | — | — | D | B | A− |
| Ferrières-en-Brie | 3,932 | 1.7 | C+ | D− | C+ | B |
| Roissy-en-Brie | 23,229 | 2.5 | C | D | B+ | C+ |
| Ozoir-la-Ferrière | 21,238 | 2.5 | C+ | D | B− | A− |
| Bussy-Saint-Georges | 27,498 | 3 | B− | D− | B− | A |
| Collégien | 3,354 | 3.1 | D | D | D− | C+ |
| Émerainville | 7,690 | 4.1 | B− | D− | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 14 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 21% of compared French towns. 93% of 429 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Charles le Chauve in 2025, 3 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Pontcarré grades D 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.
