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The town has 1,219 residents and lies in Yvelines, Île-de-France.
The weak point is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying in is costly (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools are weaker too: brevet results 5 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Tacoignières 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 2 things Tacoignières does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Tacoignières 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.
Tacoignières 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 Tacoignières as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Georges, in Richebourg, 1.9 mi away.
13% 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 Tacoignières.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted mortality in Tacoignières: 102 deaths for every 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 75 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 76, 2% more. The nearest emergency department to Tacoignières is Centre hospitalier Francois Quesnay, 11.4 mi away. Average lifespans in Yvelines: 86.8 years for women, 82.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 D− to B.
15% of residents are 65 or over, below Yvelines’ towns (17%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. Graduates make up 46% of adults. People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Yvelines 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Tacoignières | Yvelines median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.5% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 46% | 49% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Yvelines median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €3,049/m², below Yvelines’ towns (€3,717/m²) but above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). The market in Tacoignières: 39 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,049/m² | 39 |
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.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 5.7 mi away. The closest collège is 1.5 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges PompidouNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 135 | 91%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Half of residents lived on more than €33,610 a year per consumption unit, close to Yvelines’ towns (€32,600) and above compared French towns (€25,970). 7.9% of people in the labour force have no job. Public transport took nearly a fifth of Tacoignières’ working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Tacoignières. Best known first.
Nothing in Tacoignières 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 Tacoignières 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoignières | 1,219 | — | — | C | — | C− |
| Gambais | 2,574 | 3.7 | — | B | — | A |
| Garancières | 2,621 | 4.1 | — | C+ | — | C |
| Houdan | 3,721 | 4.3 | C− | C− | B− | D |
| La Queue-les-Yvelines | 2,629 | 5.1 | — | C | — | A− |
| Montfort-l'Amaury | 2,779 | 7.7 | A− | C− | B+ | A |
| Magnanville | 6,383 | 9.5 | C+ | C− | B+ | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Tacoignières has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.3 recorded violent incidents and 7.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 35% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Tacoignières grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
Tacoignières is a commune of 1,219 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Houdanais (CCPH). 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 November 4, 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.