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Home to 2,814 people, this town lies in Seine-Maritime, Normandy.
Where it does best is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 34% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. School results trail most towns: bac results 7 points below the expected rate; brevet results 2.3 points below the expected rate. It lags on cost of living as well (C−) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Houppeville has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Houppeville does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Houppeville 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.
Houppeville has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Houppeville has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Houppeville.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Seine-Maritime: 84.7 years for women and 78.7 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 196 deaths in Houppeville from 2016 to 2025; there were 130, 34% fewer. This Seine-Maritime 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Houppeville, 82.3% of collège pupils passed the brevet, below both Seine-Maritime’s towns (84.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%). The nearest collège is 2.1 mi away. Its schools’ results rank #62 of 75 in Seine-Maritime.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean ZayNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 104 | 75%−9 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Bernard PalissyNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 143 | 74%−7 pts |
| Collège AlainBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 130 | 85%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Of the homes sold, 96% were houses. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €11.36/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 77 homes in Houppeville.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,492/m² | 74 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
4.9% of people in the labour force have no job. At the census, 8.6% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Seine-Maritime’s towns (14.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Jobs based in Houppeville number 200, against 1,300 residents in work (0.1 per worker).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
5.5% of its homes were built before 1919, below Seine-Maritime’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike. Among the classé monuments in Houppeville is Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9.2% of the population. Children under 15 make up 19%, higher than both Seine-Maritime’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). Half the people of Houppeville are older than 45.4.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Seine-Maritime 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Houppeville | Seine-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.6% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 51% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Among the graded crimes in Houppeville, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025). Violence against people ran at 1.7 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 8 (2023–2025 average). Police and gendarmerie figures for Houppeville show 21 offenses in 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, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 30.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Houppeville. Best known first.
MuseumMusée industriel de la corderie Vallois2.5 km southwest, in Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville
MuseumMusée des sapeurs-pompiers de France4.3 km north, in MontvilleMuseumMuseumLe Shed3.6 km southwest, in MarommePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Houppeville has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption: Photo: Odenel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Houppeville yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houppeville | 2,814 | — | — | C− | — | A |
| Le Houlme | 4,130 | 1.8 | C− | C+ | C | A− |
| Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville | 7,071 | 1.9 | C− | C | C+ | C+ |
| Malaunay | 6,221 | 2 | C+ | C | B+ | A− |
| Montville | 4,625 | 2.5 | B+ | B | A− | B+ |
| Maromme | 10,957 | 2.6 | C− | B− | D | B+ |
| Déville-lès-Rouen | 10,802 | 3.1 | D | C | C− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Houppeville has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 13% of compared French towns and #62 of 75 in Seine-Maritime. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.19/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Houppeville grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Houppeville is a commune of 2,814 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.