Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,486 in Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Vergigny 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 12% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Vergigny does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vergigny 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 no building in Vergigny as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Florentin, in Saint-Florentin, 2.4 mi away.
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vergigny.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In the comparison, Vergigny comes above both Yonne’s towns (95) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 137 residents of Vergigny died, against 122 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 12% 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 Vergigny, that is below both Yonne’s towns (€10.29/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,443/m², comes from 34 sales of houses and apartments in Vergigny from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,443/m² | 34 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Vergigny sits below both Yonne’s towns (13.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%) on this measure. Vergigny has 200 jobs for 650 working residents, 0.3 per worker. 7.8% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
That puts Vergigny below both Yonne’s towns (21%) and compared French towns (30%). People aged 15 to 24 make up 9.2% of the town.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Vergigny | Yonne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 32% | 26% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 13% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Yonne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On this, Vergigny is below both Yonne’s towns (84.1%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marcel AyméNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 107 | 81%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Museums and heritage in and near Vergigny. Best known first.
Nothing in Vergigny is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Vergigny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vergigny | 1,486 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Saint-Florentin | 4,164 | 2.4 | B− | A+ | D | C |
| Brienon-sur-Armançon | 3,032 | 4.7 | B− | A+ | C | B− |
| Migennes | 6,688 | 8.9 | C− | B+ | D | C− |
| Monéteau | 4,114 | 10 | B+ | B | C− | B |
| Appoigny | 3,114 | 11 | A | B+ | A | B |
| Auxerre | 35,097 | 14 | C− | B | D | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Vergigny has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.1 recorded violent incidents and 9.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B−, better than 46% 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 €1,443/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Vergigny grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Vergigny is a commune of 1,486 people in the Communauté de communes Serein et Armance. 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.