Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 9,699 residents, it is a town in Yvelines, Île-de-France.
One weak subject stands out against an otherwise good record. Vernouillet grades B overall, better than 60% of compared French towns. It ranks #45 of 91 in Yvelines. Its strongest is walkability (A+): 83% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 41% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Health is another plus: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Housing is expensive: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for safety, B− for schools and B− for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and 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 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Vernouillet does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vernouillet 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 Vernouillet: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1862.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vernouillet.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Vernouillet sell for €3,558/m², houses for €3,789/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €17.82/m² a month, about level with Yvelines’ towns (€18.40/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Among the homes sold, 70% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,789/m² | 166 |
| Apartments | €3,558/m² | 70 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Jobs based in Vernouillet number 1,750, against 4,150 residents in work (0.4 per worker). The median disposable income was €33,100 a year per consumption unit, close to Yvelines’ towns (€32,600) and above compared French towns (€25,970). Also worth knowing: just over a tenth of the labour force are out of work.
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.
Life expectancy at birth in Yvelines is 86.8 years for women and 82.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Adjusted mortality in Vernouillet: 76 deaths for every 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 736 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 737, about as many.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Retirement age and beyond: 16% of residents are 65 or older. Degrees are held by half of adults, close to Yvelines’ towns (49%) and above compared French towns (30%). The age that splits Vernouillet in two is 39.5.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Yvelines 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Vernouillet | Yvelines median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 17% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 15% | 16% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 13% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 50% | 49% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Yvelines median and France median: the median of compared communes
The commonest graded crime in Vernouillet was criminal damage (2025). In all, 190 offenses reached the police record here in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 7 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 12.2.
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 armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 0.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. Among the classé monuments in Vernouillet is église Saint-Étienne. Homes from before 1919 make up 5.7% of the total, higher than Yvelines’ towns (5.2%) yet lower than compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Vernouillet, 95.7% passed the bac, higher than both Yvelines’ towns (93.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Ranked by results, schools here are #23 of 94 in Yvelines.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Émile ZolaNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 89 | 80%−11 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame Les Oiseaux PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 324 | 100%+1 pt |
| 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
Heritage and museums in and near Vernouillet. Best known first.
Vernouillet has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
église Saint-Étienne: Photo: frederic masson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 3 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Vernouillet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernouillet | 9,699 | — | B | D− | B | A− |
| Verneuil-sur-Seine | 16,280 | 1 | B | D | B | A |
| Triel-sur-Seine | 12,206 | 1.4 | C+ | D | C+ | A |
| Chanteloup-les-Vignes | 10,861 | 2.2 | D | D | B− | B− |
| Villennes-sur-Seine | 5,952 | 2.3 | B− | D− | A− | A− |
| Vaux-sur-Seine | 5,202 | 2.6 | C+ | D | B+ | B+ |
| Carrières-sous-Poissy | 20,825 | 2.8 | D | D− | B+ | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #40 of 91 in Yvelines. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 23 burglaries and 71 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 49% of compared French towns and #23 of 94 in Yvelines. The lycée stands out: 100% of 324 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Notre-Dame Les Oiseaux in 2025, a point above 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 Vernouillet grades D− for cost of living.
Commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
Vernouillet is a commune of 9,699 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 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.