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The town has 2,219 residents and lies in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France.
Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: 97% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 21% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its lowest grade is for cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 15% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Pupils here do less well than most (C−): bac results 1.3 points above the expected rate; brevet results 3.2 points above the expected rate.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · 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. Fontenay-en-Parisis 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.
The one thing Fontenay-en-Parisis does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Fontenay-en-Parisis 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.
Fontenay-en-Parisis has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Fontenay-en-Parisis has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1886.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Fontenay-en-Parisis.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €17.54/m² a month, about level with Val-d'Oise’s towns (€18.09/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses were 78% of what sold. The market in Fontenay-en-Parisis: 41 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,244/m² | 32 |
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.
Life expectancy in Val-d'Oise: 85.9 years for women and 81.1 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. 350 deaths in Fontenay-en-Parisis between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 190: 84% above. The nearest emergency department to Fontenay-en-Parisis is Centre hospitalier General de Gonesse, 3.9 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
The share aged 15 to 24 is 13%. Degrees are held by a third of adults, lower than Val-d'Oise’s towns (38%) yet higher than compared French towns (30%). 15% of residents have reached 65.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Val-d'Oise 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Fontenay-en-Parisis | Val-d'Oise median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 21% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 26% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 15% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 20% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 38% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Val-d'Oise median and France median: the median of compared communes
Per resident in work, Fontenay-en-Parisis counts 0.3 jobs (350 jobs, 1,000 workers). Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Val-d'Oise’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 17.7% of working residents in Fontenay-en-Parisis went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Fontenay-en-Parisis, just over four fifths of collège pupils passed the brevet, below both Val-d'Oise’s towns (82.7%) and compared French towns (87.5%). The bac pro: 78% of 209 candidates passed at the vocational lycée within 5 km. The nearest collège is 1.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Maximilien de RobespierreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 138 | 75%±0 pts |
| Lycée Romain RollandNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 397 | 85%−1 pt |
| Collège Georges CharpakBest against expectations: 15 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 124 | 79%+15 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Fontenay-en-Parisis is Église Saint-Aquillin. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 6.6% of the total.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The commonest graded crime in Fontenay-en-Parisis was vehicle theft (2025). Violence against people averaged 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 12.3. In all, 22 offenses reached the police record in the town 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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 25.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Fontenay-en-Parisis has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Aquillin: Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Fontenay-en-Parisis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fontenay-en-Parisis | 2,219 | — | — | D− | — | D |
| Goussainville | 31,301 | 1.3 | D− | D− | D | C− |
| Puiseux-en-France | 3,765 | 2.2 | B− | D− | B+ | B+ |
| Louvres | 12,560 | 2.3 | D | D− | C | B− |
| Le Thillay | 4,560 | 3.1 | D− | D− | C− | C− |
| Marly-la-Ville | 6,022 | 3.5 | B− | D− | B− | B+ |
| Écouen | 7,202 | 3.8 | C | D− | C | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fontenay-en-Parisis has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 8 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 24% of compared French towns. 85% of 397 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Romain Rolland in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Fontenay-en-Parisis grades D− for cost of living.
Commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Fontenay-en-Parisis is a commune of 2,219 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Roissy Pays de France. 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.