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3,117 residents make their home in this town in Seine-Maritime, Normandy.
Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal’s strongest is jobs & income (A+): 0.7 jobs per working resident; 4.5% unemployment. Its overall grade is A−, better than 80% of compared French towns. The ranking puts it #9 of 70 in Seine-Maritime. It is a safe place by the numbers: an average of 5.5 recorded violent incidents and 6.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. What holds it back is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: B for schools and B− for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal 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 no building in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Carville, in Darnétal, 3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal.
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal (2025). Police and gendarmerie figures for Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal show 40 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 · Small counts of sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 21.2% 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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €10.10/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 78 homes were sold in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,430/m² | 78 |
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.
For a family doctor, residents of Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal can choose among 4 GPs. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal’s; allowing for it, deaths were 6% below expected. 426 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 362: 18% above. In Seine-Maritime, life expectancy at birth reaches 84.7 years for women and 78.7 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Children under 15 make up 19% of residents. People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above Seine-Maritime’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. 39% of adults hold a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Seine-Maritime 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal | Seine-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 3.5 mi to the nearest lycée. The closest collège is 1.7 mi off. By results, schools here place #12 of 75 in Seine-Maritime.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean-Jacques RousseauNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 74 | 72%−10 pts |
| Collège Georges BraqueBest against expectations: 21 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 98 | 79%+21 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income is €30,360 a year per consumption unit. 7.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Seine-Maritime’s towns (14.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal | 3,117 | — | A− | C | A | C |
| Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis | 3,633 | 2.5 | A− | C | A | A− |
| Darnétal | 9,566 | 2.7 | C− | C | C− | C− |
| Franqueville-Saint-Pierre | 6,171 | 3.3 | A | D | A | B |
| Le Mesnil-Esnard | 8,177 | 3.7 | B | D | B− | A− |
| Bihorel | 8,316 | 3.9 | B− | C | D | B+ |
| Bonsecours | 6,442 | 3.9 | B | C− | C+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #6 of 70 in Seine-Maritime.
They grade B, better than 62% of compared French towns and #12 of 75 in Seine-Maritime. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.04/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal is a commune of 3,117 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 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.