Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 7,704 in Yvelines, Île-de-France.
Beynes grades A− overall: better than 85% of compared French towns, and #9 of 91 in Yvelines. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 5.9% unemployment.
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 Beynes does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Beynes 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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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Beynes: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 11th century; the first monument here was protected in 2014.
Charles-Thomas Thibault, born in 1796, is the one person born in Beynes before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Beynes.
Police and gendarmerie recorded 129 offenses in the graded categories in Beynes in 2025. Violence against people ran at 7.2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 8.4 (2023–2025 average). 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, 2.2% 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
That puts Beynes below both Yvelines’ towns (8.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The median disposable income is €33,450 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On this, Beynes is above both Yvelines’ towns (82.7%) and compared French towns (87.5%). Schools rank #1 of 94 in Yvelines.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François RabelaisNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 153 | 94%−2 pts |
| Lycée Viollet le DucNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 220 | 98%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €3,397/m², close to Yvelines’ towns (€3,717/m²) and above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). In Beynes, houses go for €3,721/m² and apartments for €2,669/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,721/m² | 170 |
| Apartments | €2,669/m² | 96 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
11% of residents are 15 to 24 and 19% are 65 or over, against 12% and 17% in the median compared commune of Yvelines. 41% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Yvelines 49%, France 30%).
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Yvelines 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Beynes | Yvelines median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 49% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Yvelines median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In the comparison, Beynes comes above both Yvelines’ towns (76) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 462 residents of Beynes died, against 502 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% fewer. 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
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Beynes: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage, gardens and other places to visit in and near Beynes. Best known first.
Beynes has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Beynes: Photo: ℍenry Salomé · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Beynes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beynes | 7,704 | — | A− | C | A− | C+ |
| Villiers-Saint-Frédéric | 3,395 | 2.6 | A | C− | A | A+ |
| Neauphle-le-Château | 3,250 | 2.9 | — | C− | — | B |
| Plaisir | 31,811 | 3.9 | C+ | D | C+ | B− |
| Maule | 6,083 | 4.2 | B | B | B− | B |
| Jouars-Pontchartrain | 6,039 | 4.3 | A− | C− | A | A |
| Feucherolles | 3,043 | 4.6 | A | C− | A | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety, #11 of 91 in Yvelines. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 15 burglaries and 23 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 74% of compared French towns and #1 of 94 in Yvelines. 98% of 220 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Viollet le Duc in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Beynes grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
Beynes is a commune of 7,704 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur d'Yvelines. 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.