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A town of 1,434 in Yvelines, Île-de-France.
Thoiry 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 4% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €3,358/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Cœur d'Yvelines. Its strongest is jobs & income (A+): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 6.8% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Thoiry does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Thoiry 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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On the Culture ministry’s list, Thoiry 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 2014.
16% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Other places to visit, heritage and family days out in and near Thoiry. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Thoiry.
Unemployment runs at 6.8%. At the census, 15.4% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Yvelines’ towns (35.4%) and close to compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 65-and-over age group makes up 14% of residents. 48% of adults hold a degree, about level with Yvelines’ towns (49%) and above compared French towns (30%). Half of Thoiry is older than 38.4, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Yvelines 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Thoiry | Yvelines median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.8% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 48% | 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.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Thoiry records 104 deaths per 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 84 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 88, 4% more. Life expectancy in Yvelines: 86.8 years for women and 82.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. This Yvelines town has 4 family doctors.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €3,358/m²: 32 houses and apartments sold in Thoiry between July 2023 and June 2026. Of the homes sold, 81% were houses.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Thoiry is Château de Thoiry.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
More of the graded crimes in Thoiry were theft from vehicles than anything else (2025). The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 4.5 violent offenses and 15.6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Police and gendarmerie figures for Thoiry show 20 offenses in 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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft, 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, 37.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Thoiry has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Thoiry: Photo: ℍenry pour Spedona · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Thoiry as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thoiry | 1,434 | — | — | C+ | — | D |
| Garancières | 2,621 | 3.8 | — | C+ | — | C |
| Beynes | 7,704 | 4.2 | A− | C | A− | C+ |
| Maule | 6,083 | 4.2 | B | B | B− | B |
| La Queue-les-Yvelines | 2,629 | 4.5 | — | C | — | A− |
| Villiers-Saint-Frédéric | 3,395 | 5.5 | A | C− | A | A+ |
| Mézières-sur-Seine | 3,923 | 6.1 | C+ | D | A− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Thoiry has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,358/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Thoiry grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
Thoiry is a commune of 1,434 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.