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This town in Territoire de Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has a population of 5,623.
Delle grades C− overall, better than a quarter of compared French towns. Police record more crime here than in most towns: an average of 18.8 recorded violent incidents and 17.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. School results trail most towns: bac results 15 points below the expected rate; brevet results 3 points below the expected rate. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Fewer journeys need a car: 88% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Delle does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Delle 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 →
Delle has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1970.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Delle.
No compared town in Territoire de Belfort has more graded crime per resident than Delle: it ranks last of 10. In all, 197 offenses reached the police record locally in 2025. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Delle (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SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 0.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.65/m² a month, near Territoire de Belfort’s towns (€10.70/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). In Delle, houses go for €1,510/m² and apartments for €1,228/m². From July 2023 to June 2026, 188 homes were sold here.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,510/m² | 88 |
| Apartments | €1,228/m² | 100 |
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.
At the lycées within 5 km of Delle, 65.0% passed the bac, below Territoire de Belfort’s towns (89.6%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The nearest general lycée is 8.5 mi away. Its collèges and lycées rank #8 of 11 in Territoire de Belfort on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules FerryNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 89 | 85%−3 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jules FerryNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 46 | 65%−15 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Delle holds 2,200 jobs; 2,100 of its residents are in work, so 1 jobs each. Public transport took 4.4% of the town’s working residents to work at the census. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €24,990 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its two care homes for older people (116 places) count their residents as Delle’s; allowing for them, deaths were 5% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 548 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 652, 19% more. The nearest emergency department to Delle is Hnfc site Trevenans, 7.6 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Territoire de Belfort is 85 years for women and 79.4 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 16th century. 8.8% of homes were built before 1919.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
12% of residents are 15 to 24, close to Territoire de Belfort’s towns (11%) and above compared French towns (11%). Delle has a median age of 41.8. People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Territoire de Belfort 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Delle | Territoire de Belfort median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Territoire de Belfort median and France median: the median of compared communes
Delle has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
"Maison de Jean-Guyat Lovy, préfet de Delle, dite " maison des remparts "": Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Maison dite " maison à tourelle ": Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Maison Lourdel, actuel Hôtel de ville: Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Maison des Cariatides: Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Delle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delle | 5,623 | — | C− | A | D | C |
| Grandvillars | 2,947 | 2.4 | B | A | A− | C |
| Beaucourt | 4,966 | 3.9 | A− | A+ | B+ | C+ |
| Étupes Doubs | 3,689 | 6.4 | C+ | B | B− | C+ |
| Hérimoncourt Doubs | 3,508 | 7.2 | B | A | B+ | D |
| Seloncourt Doubs | 5,854 | 7.3 | B+ | B+ | A− | C+ |
| Audincourt Doubs | 14,071 | 7.6 | C− | A− | C | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 75 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 12% of compared French towns and #8 of 11 in Territoire de Belfort. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Delle grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Territoire de Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Delle is a commune of 5,623 people in the Communauté de communes du Sud Territoire. 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.