French DPE Energy Rating Search — Find Homes by Class

Search ADEME's national energy-performance register — 15.6 million certificates — by area and by criteria, and get both the shape of a local housing market and the individual records behind it.

The register is open data, but it is not easy data: 230 columns, French field names, a query syntax of its own, and no way to ask a simple question like how much of this commune is poorly rated? This Actor asks it for you.

What comes back

A statistical profile of every area you search. How many certificates match, the full distribution across the seven classes in counts and percentages, average floor area, average energy use per square metre and average emissions.

The local market as context, not just your filter. If you filter on F and G, the share of poorly rated stock is trivially 100% — useless. So the Actor also computes the same area without your class filter and reports the real figure. Ask for pre-1975 houses rated F or G in Avignon and you get: 304 matches out of a local stock of 1 481, 20.5%. The Vaucluse as a whole sits at 22.7%; Vedène at 13.5%. That comparison is the product.

The individual certificates, each with address, energy and greenhouse class, building type, year built, habitable area, energy use, assessment date and coordinates — ready to map or to join onto your own data.

Four ways to define an area

Scope	When to use it
Commune INSEE code	The sharpest scope — one commune is one local market
Postcode	Looser: a postcode can span several communes
Department	Regional studies; expect large counts
Around an address	A radius that follows real neighbourhoods rather than administrative lines

Filters

Energy class, greenhouse-gas class, building type (maison, appartement, immeuble), construction year range, habitable floor area range, and assessment date. Combine them freely — every filter applies to the statistics as well as the records.

Two cut-offs worth knowing. 1975 is the usual dividing line for pre-insulation housing stock. July 2021 is when the current method came in, with a further revision in July 2024, so certificates issued before then are not directly comparable — assessedAfter lets you exclude them.

Why F and G

French law now restricts the worst-rated homes: class G can no longer be let, and class F follows in 2028. That single fact is why insulation, heat-pump and renovation businesses filter on exactly these two classes, and why a commune's F+G share is a market size rather than a statistic.

Who uses this

Renovation, insulation and heating businesses sizing a territory before opening in it. Energy consultants and bureaux d'études profiling a housing stock. Local authorities and social landlords planning retrofit programmes. Estate agencies and valuers who need to know how a property sits against its neighbours. Researchers and journalists working on housing and energy.

On personal data

The register describes buildings, not people. It carries no owner names and no contact details. Addresses are published by ADEME as open data under the Licence Ouverte.

If you go on to use individual records for commercial prospecting, you become the data controller for that use and French and EU rules apply to you — legitimate-interest assessment, the information notice required at first contact, and the Bloctel opposition list. This Actor runs on your own Apify account and keeps nothing; what you do with the output is yours to govern. If you only need to size a market, turn includeRecords off: the statistics are computed over every match regardless.

Data source

ADEME — DPE Logements existants (depuis juillet 2021), queried live, so results reflect the register as it stands today. Published under the Licence Ouverte / Etalab. No credentials needed.

Frequently asked

Do the statistics depend on how many records I request? No. They are computed over every certificate that matches, whatever maxRecordsPerArea is set to. A low value gives you the full picture cheaply.

Why do two certificates share one address? Because a building can hold several dwellings, and a dwelling can be assessed more than once. Both are normal.

Does it cover new builds? This Actor reads the register of existing housing. New-build certificates live in a separate ADEME dataset.

Is a 2022 certificate comparable with a 2025 one? Not exactly. The method was revised in July 2024, mainly affecting small dwellings. Use assessedAfter when comparability matters.