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A town in Seine-Maritime, Normandy, home to 10,802 people.
A tough set of grades. Incomes are on the low side: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 15.2% unemployment. It also trails on safety — an average of 10.1 recorded violent incidents and 21.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Walkability is its strong suit — 100% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 31% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,925/m²: 70 m² comes to 5.5 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Métropole Rouen Normandie. The overall grade comes out at D, better than 14% of compared French towns. That places it #56 of 70 in Seine-Maritime.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Déville-lès-Rouen does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Déville-lès-Rouen 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 lists no building in Déville-lès-Rouen as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Sainte-Madeleine, ancienne église de l'Hôtel Dieu, in Rouen, 2 mi away.
Explore the history →Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Déville-lès-Rouen. Best known first.
MuseumMusée maritime fluvial et portuaire de Rouen2.6 km south, in Rouen
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen4 km southeast, in Rouen
ChâteauTour Jeanne-d'Arc3.8 km southeast, in Rouen
MuseumMusée des antiquités de Rouen4.1 km southeast, in Rouen
MuseumMuséum de Rouen4.1 km southeast, in Rouen
MuseumPavillon Flaubert4 km southwest, in CanteleuPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Déville-lès-Rouen.
Of those in the labour force, 15.2% are unemployed. Half of residents lived on more than €22,160 a year per consumption unit, lower than both Seine-Maritime’s towns (€24,015) and compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 2.8% of working residents in Déville-lès-Rouen at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Déville-lès-Rouen show 271 offenses in 2025. The graded crime recorded most here 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 · Small counts of armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 0.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Déville-lès-Rouen come to 97 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 867 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,075, 24% more. Women in Seine-Maritime live to 84.7 on average and men to 78.7 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. For a family doctor, residents of Déville-lès-Rouen can choose among 9 GPs.
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.
People 65 and over make up 17% of the town, lower than both Seine-Maritime’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up 29% of adults. The middle age in Déville-lès-Rouen is 36.7.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Seine-Maritime 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Déville-lès-Rouen | Seine-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 15% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,925/m², comes from 480 sales of houses and apartments in Déville-lès-Rouen from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses in Déville-lès-Rouen sell for €2,174/m² and apartments for €1,667/m². Of the homes sold, 48% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,174/m² | 229 |
| Apartments | €1,667/m² | 251 |
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.
Results rank its schools #18 of 75 in Seine-Maritime. Near Déville-lès-Rouen, 93.4% of lycée candidates passed the bac, higher than Seine-Maritime’s towns (91.7%) and near compared French towns (92.9%). At the 10 general lycées, 96% of 1,902 candidates passed the bac, 0.7 points below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules VerneNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 103 | 69%−8 pts |
| Lycée de la Vallée du CaillyNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 273 | 91%−2 pts |
| Collège Institution Sainte-Marie PrivateBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 73 | 100%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Déville-lès-Rouen is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
16 notable people were born in Déville-lès-Rouen.
Pierre Bérégovoy: Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry (MINEFI), France, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Alfred Louis Delattre: White Fathers, Public domain · Joseph Delattre: Unknown or anonymous photographer, Public domain · Henry Barbet: Franck, Public domain · Georges Risler: Henri Manuel, Public domain · Jules Bosquin: Alphonse Liébert, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Déville-lès-Rouen | 10,802 | — | D | C | C− | C |
| Maromme | 10,957 | 1 | C− | B− | D | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville | 7,071 | 1.3 | C− | C | C+ | C+ |
| Mont-Saint-Aignan | 20,165 | 1.3 | B | C− | C | B+ |
| Canteleu | 14,402 | 1.5 | C− | C+ | C− | C− |
| Bois-Guillaume | 14,539 | 2.7 | B | D | D | A |
| Rouen | 117,662 | 2.8 | D | C− | D− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety, #57 of 70 in Seine-Maritime. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 103 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 53% of compared French towns and #18 of 75 in Seine-Maritime. 91% of 273 candidates passed the bac at Lycée de la Vallée du Cailly in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,925/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.69/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Déville-lès-Rouen grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Déville-lès-Rouen is a commune of 10,802 people in the Métropole Rouen Normandie. 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.