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Population 24,658: a town in Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France.
Crime is the sore point (D−): an average of 15.3 recorded violent incidents and 26.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Orly grades D− overall, behind almost every compared French town. Homes are dear: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest subject is walkability (A+): 100% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 48% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · 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.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Orly does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Orly 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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On the Culture ministry’s list, Orly counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1996.
0.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Other places to visit, heritage and gardens in and near Orly. Best known first.
MuseumMusée Delta4.3 km southwest, in Athis-Mons
GardenÎle de loisirs de Créteil4.6 km northeast, in CréteilChâteauChâteauChâteau de Choisy-le-Roi1.8 km north, in Choisy-le-RoiCathedralCathedralCathédrale Saint-Louis-et-Saint-Nicolas de Choisy-le-Roi2.1 km north, in Choisy-le-RoiGardenGardenCentre horticole de la Ville de Paris5 km west, in RungisPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Orly.
For its 9,900 residents in work, Orly has 23,250 jobs: 2.4 each. Households’ median disposable income: €21,560 a year per consumption unit. 47.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Val-de-Marne’s towns (55.6%) but above compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Orly comes 43rd of the 44 compared towns in Val-de-Marne on the Safety Grade. Over 2025, Orly logged 976 recorded offenses. The graded crime recorded most here was criminal damage (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 armed robbery, 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, 0.1% 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.
Houses sell for €4,066/m² in Orly, apartments for €3,243/m². The estimated advertised rent is €19.70/m² a month, close to Val-de-Marne’s towns (€20.46/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Also worth knowing: between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 339 homes here.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,066/m² | 136 |
| Apartments | €3,243/m² | 203 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
13% of residents are 65 or over, below Val-de-Marne’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 13% of the population. Among adults, 30% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Val-de-Marne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Orly | Val-de-Marne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 13% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 28% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 24% | 26% |
| 65+ | 13% | 16% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 43% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Val-de-Marne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Val-de-Marne: 86.7 years for women and 82.8 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. After the care-home adjustment, Orly’s deaths ran at 100 per 100 expected, above Val-de-Marne’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88) alike. France’s death rates at each age would predict 1,297 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,499, 16% more.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Orly, 89.8% of lycée candidates passed the bac, lower than both Val-de-Marne’s towns (91.1%) and compared French towns (92.9%). By results, schools here place #18 of 47 in Val-de-Marne. At the nine general lycées, 93% of 2,247 candidates passed the bac, at the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Robert DesnosNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 164 | 75%−5 pts |
| Lycée Guillaume ApollinaireNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 451 | 94%+2 pts |
| Lycée Clément AderBest against expectations: 20 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 70 | 94%+20 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.
Homes from before 1919 make up 0.8% of the total. Among the classé monuments in Orly is Église Saint-Germain-de-Paris. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 13th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Orly has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Germain-de-Paris: Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
2 notable people were born in Orly.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orly | 24,658 | — | D− | D | D− | C− |
| Villeneuve-le-Roi | 21,000 | 1 | D | D | C | B− |
| Choisy-le-Roi | 45,946 | 1.2 | D | D | C− | B+ |
| Thiais | 32,918 | 1.4 | C− | D− | C− | A− |
| Ablon-sur-Seine | 5,988 | 1.7 | D | D | C | C+ |
| Villeneuve-Saint-Georges | 36,221 | 2.1 | D− | D | C− | B− |
| Valenton | 14,406 | 2.5 | D− | D | C | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 40 burglaries and 305 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 31% of compared French towns and #18 of 47 in Val-de-Marne. The lycée stands out: 94% of 451 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire in 2025, 2 points above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Orly grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France
Orly is a commune of 24,658 people in the Métropole du Grand Paris. 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 October 30, 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.