Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
3,885 people live in this town in Vosges, Grand Est.
Low prices, and some weak spots to weigh against them. Prices are modest for what you get (A+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Recorded crime is low (A): an average of 6.2 recorded violent incidents and 6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The overall grade lands at A−, better than just over four fifths of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #10 of 27 in Vosges.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023.
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 Le Val-d'Ajol does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Val-d'Ajol 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, Le Val-d'Ajol counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1908.
31% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Val-d'Ajol.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,272/m², below both Vosges’ towns (€1,349/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Of the homes sold, 89% were houses. Le Val-d'Ajol recorded 109 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,386/m² | 97 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Over 2025, Le Val-d'Ajol logged 40 recorded offenses. More of the graded crimes in the town were family violence than anything else (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, 10.7% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (69 places) counts its residents as Le Val-d'Ajol’s; allowing for it, deaths were 5% above expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 523 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 625, 19% more. The nearest emergency department to Le Val-d'Ajol is Centre hospitalier de Remiremont, 7.1 mi away. In Vosges, women can expect to live 84.2 years and men 78.6 (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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Degrees are held by just over a fifth of adults, near Vosges’ towns (22%) and lower than compared French towns (30%). The 15-to-24 age group makes up 7.7% of residents. Children under 15 count for 14% of the people here.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vosges 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Le Val-d'Ajol | Vosges median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 26% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vosges median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 16th century. Among the classé monuments in Le Val-d'Ajol is Croix de chemin, au hameau des Chênes. Churches, chapels and other religious buildings, 4 of the 4, make up the bulk. On the Culture ministry’s list, Le Val-d'Ajol counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The median disposable income was €23,780 a year per consumption unit, about level with Vosges’ towns (€23,200) and below compared French towns (€25,970). 10.2% of people in the labour force have no job. No commute at all: 6.4% of working residents in Le Val-d'Ajol at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Le Val-d'Ajol. Best known first.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Le Val-d'Ajol counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
4 notable people were born in Le Val-d'Ajol.
Père Duval: Grentidez, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Val-d'Ajol | 3,885 | — | A− | A+ | A | D |
| Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert Haute-Saône | 3,764 | 5.2 | A− | A | A+ | C− |
| Remiremont | 7,388 | 7 | B | A− | C− | B |
| Rupt-sur-Moselle | 3,419 | 7.6 | A | A− | A+ | B− |
| Saint-Nabord | 3,953 | 8 | A+ | A− | A+ | A |
| Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont | 3,818 | 8.2 | A | B+ | A+ | B+ |
| Xertigny | 2,589 | 9.2 | C+ | A+ | B+ | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #7 of 27 in Vosges.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Le Val-d'Ajol grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vosges, Grand Est
Le Val-d'Ajol is a commune of 3,885 people in the Communauté de communes de la Porte des Vosges Méridionales. 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.