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1,245 residents make their home in this town in Seine-Maritime, Normandy.
Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around depends on the car (C): 89% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Schools are weaker too — brevet results 4 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Ymare 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 Ymare 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.
Ymare has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ymare as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Grotte préhistorique, in Gouy, 2.1 mi away.
4.4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ymare.
Under-15s account for just over a fifth of the population. 16% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Seine-Maritime’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%). Add to that, the 15-to-24 age group makes up 9.5% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Seine-Maritime 52.8%, France 51.8%.
| Ymare | Seine-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 46% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Households’ median disposable income: €30,570 a year per consumption unit. 2.5% of Ymare’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 38 homes in Ymare. The sales split: 97% houses, the rest apartments. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €10.71/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,187/m² | 37 |
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.
No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 3.6 mi away. Collège pupils travel 2.8 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Masseot AbaquesneNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 125 | 90%−4 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.
At birth, a girl in Seine-Maritime can expect 84.7 years and a boy 78.7 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 56 residents of Ymare died, against 65 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Ymare is Centre hospitalier D Elbeuf les Feugrais, 6.6 mi away.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A.
Nothing in Ymare is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Ymare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ymare | 1,245 | — | — | C | — | B |
| Pîtres Eure | 2,589 | 2.9 | C+ | B− | A− | C |
| Boos | 3,975 | 2.9 | A | C+ | A+ | B+ |
| Pont-de-l'Arche Eure | 4,133 | 3.3 | C+ | C+ | B− | C+ |
| Oissel-sur-Seine | 12,317 | 3.6 | D | B− | C− | D |
| Tourville-la-Rivière | 2,596 | 3.7 | C− | C | D− | C− |
| Franqueville-Saint-Pierre | 6,171 | 3.7 | A | D | A | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ymare has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.9 recorded violent incidents and 5.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 38% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.89/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ymare grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Ymare is a commune of 1,245 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.