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A town of 1,747 in Yvelines, Île-de-France.
School results trail most towns: brevet results 8.4 points below the expected rate. At €2,204/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 5.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Les Portes de l'Ile de France. Jobs & income is weaker too — 0.2 jobs per working resident; 9.7% unemployment. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for health and B− for walkability.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and 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) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Bennecourt 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.
Each subject compares Bennecourt 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.
Bennecourt has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Bennecourt does most differently from other towns.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Bennecourt 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 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1932.
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Bennecourt has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Ouen: Photo: Thor19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bennecourt.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 4.8 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 0.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Louis PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 54 | 96%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Children are 18% of the town. People aged 15 to 24 make up 10% of the town, about level with compared French towns (11%) and below Yvelines’ towns (12%). Retirement age and beyond: nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or older.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Yvelines 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Bennecourt | Yvelines median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 49% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Yvelines 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 Bennecourt is Église Saint-Ouen.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,204/m², comes from 58 sales of houses and apartments in Bennecourt from July 2023 to June 2026. House rents are put at about €13.62/m² a month. The sales split: 91% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,263/m² | 53 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
23.0% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Yvelines’ towns (35.4%) but above compared French towns (13.4%). The unemployment rate comes to 9.7%. At the census, 2.8% of working residents in Bennecourt didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
126 deaths in Bennecourt between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 143: 12% below. Life expectancy in Yvelines: 86.8 years for women and 82.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. The nearest emergency department to Bennecourt is Centre hospitalier de Vernon Ch Eure Seine, 4.8 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.6 cases of violence against people and 9.9 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Over 2025, Bennecourt logged 16 recorded offenses. The commonest graded crime locally 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 · Small counts of other physical violence, 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, 34.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Bennecourt. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bennecourt yet.
Commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
Bennecourt is a commune of 1,747 people in the Communauté de communes Les Portes de l'Ile 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennecourt | 1,747 | — | — | C+ | — | B− |
| Bonnières-sur-Seine | 5,064 | 0.8 | D | C | C | B− |
| Freneuse | 4,505 | 1.6 | C− | C | B+ | C+ |
| Gasny Eure | 3,062 | 3.8 | C− | C+ | B | D |
| Rosny-sur-Seine | 7,328 | 4.2 | C− | C− | B | B |
| Vernon Eure | 25,290 | 4.9 | D | C− | C | C+ |
| Saint-Marcel Eure | 4,512 | 6.5 | B | C | C+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bennecourt has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 3% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,204/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bennecourt grades C+ for cost of living.
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 9, 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.