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Some 2,234 people live in this town, in Yvelines, Île-de-France.
Bouafle is easy to get around without a car: nine in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 8.3% unemployment. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. School results trail most towns: bac results 3.2 points above the expected rate; brevet results 7 points below the expected rate.
Bouafle 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.
The one thing Bouafle does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bouafle 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.
Bouafle has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bouafle as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Terrains avec dolmen, in Les Mureaux, 2 mi away.
15% 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 Bouafle.
The median disposable income was €31,750 a year per consumption unit, about level with Yvelines’ towns (€32,600) and above compared French towns (€25,970). 4.1% of Bouafle’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. The jobless rate is 8.3%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
At the median, a home went for €3,066/m², below Yvelines’ towns (€3,717/m²) but above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). The sales split: 87% houses, the rest apartments. 68 houses and apartments changed hands in Bouafle from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,108/m² | 59 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 92% passed the bac pro, of 212 candidates. For collège, the closest is 1 mi away. At the lycées within 5 km of Bouafle, 93.2% passed the bac, near both Yvelines’ towns (93.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean VilarNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 134 | 52%−20 pts |
| Lycée François VillonNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 361 | 94%±0 pts |
| Lycée Jacques VaucansonBest against expectations: 18 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 212 | 92%+18 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The under-15s are a fifth of the population here. The 15-to-24 age group: 10%, lower than Yvelines’ towns (12%) and near compared French towns (11%). Graduates make up 37% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Yvelines 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Bouafle | Yvelines median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 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 Yvelines, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.8 years for women and 82.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 172 deaths in Bouafle from 2016 to 2025; there were 157, 9% fewer. There are 2 general practitioners locally.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
In 2025, family violence led the graded crimes in Bouafle. The town’s tally for 2025: 29 recorded offenses. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 6.7 cases of violence against people and 8.8 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft 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, 30.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, gardens and family days out in and near Bouafle. Best known first.
Nothing in Bouafle 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 Bouafle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouafle | 2,234 | — | — | D | — | C+ |
| Ecquevilly | 4,279 | 1.4 | C | D | C+ | C+ |
| Les Mureaux | 34,632 | 1.6 | C+ | C− | B | B− |
| Aubergenville | 12,723 | 2.1 | D | C− | B− | C |
| Hardricourt | 2,599 | 2.9 | C− | D | B− | D |
| Meulan-en-Yvelines | 8,950 | 3 | C− | C− | C | C+ |
| Juziers | 4,065 | 3.1 | C− | D | B+ | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bouafle has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 23% of compared French towns. 94% of 361 candidates passed the bac at Lycée François Villon 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 Bouafle grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
Bouafle is a commune of 2,234 people in the Communauté urbaine Grand Paris Seine et Oise. 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.