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A town of 1,569 in Vosges, Grand Est.
Plainfaing has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €1,080/m², a 70 m² home costs 3.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Its strongest is schools (A+): brevet results 7 points above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Plainfaing does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plainfaing 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 →
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Plainfaing, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest date from the 19th century.
29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Paul Marcillat, born in 1849, is the one person born in Plainfaing before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plainfaing.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On this, Plainfaing is above both Vosges’ towns (86.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de la Haute MeurtheNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 76 | 97%+7 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.
In the comparison, Plainfaing comes above both Vosges’ towns (93) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 203 residents of Plainfaing died, against 164 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 24% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For Plainfaing, that is below both Vosges’ towns (€9.54/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,080/m², comes from 85 sales of houses and apartments in Plainfaing from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,328/m² | 58 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Plainfaing sits below both Vosges’ towns (22%) and compared French towns (30%) on this measure. Children are 15% of the town.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vosges 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Plainfaing | Vosges median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 26% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 36% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 14% | 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.
That puts Plainfaing above both Vosges’ towns (13%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Plainfaing, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Plainfaing has 350 jobs for 600 working residents, 0.6 per worker. Half of residents lived on more than €22,040 a year per consumption unit, below both Vosges’ towns (€23,200) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 12 offenses in the graded categories in Plainfaing in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and theft from vehicles, 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, 35.0% of the index here.
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
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Plainfaing. Best known first.
Plainfaing has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Plainfaing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plainfaing | 1,569 | — | — | A | — | D− |
| Fraize | 2,843 | 1.5 | B+ | A− | C+ | C− |
| Anould | 3,234 | 3.6 | B+ | B | A | D |
| Orbey Haut-Rhin | 3,429 | 7.1 | — | B | — | A− |
| Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | 19,251 | 9 | C+ | A | C− | C |
| Gérardmer | 7,581 | 9.1 | C | C− | C+ | C+ |
| Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 4,851 | 9.4 | A | A | B+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Plainfaing has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.8 recorded violent incidents and 9.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 98% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,080/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Plainfaing grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Vosges, Grand Est
Plainfaing is a commune of 1,569 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. 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.