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A town of 1,027 in Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Thiel-sur-Acolin’s strongest is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on walkability as well — 44% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes lag (C): 0.5 jobs per working resident; 7.8% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Thiel-sur-Acolin 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 Thiel-sur-Acolin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Thiel-sur-Acolin 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.
Thiel-sur-Acolin has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Thiel-sur-Acolin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de la Cour-en-Chapeau, in Chapeau, 4.1 mi away.
23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, heritage and family days out in and near Thiel-sur-Acolin. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Thiel-sur-Acolin.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,136/m², below both Allier’s towns (€1,320/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Sales in Thiel-sur-Acolin from July 2023 to June 2026: 31 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,136/m² | 31 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
4.6% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. Unemployment stood at 7.8%, lower than both Allier’s towns (12.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 7.7% of working residents in Thiel-sur-Acolin didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Thiel-sur-Acolin records 102 deaths per 100 expected, above Allier’s towns (89) and compared French towns (88) alike. France’s death rates at each age would predict 99 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 101, 2% more. The nearest emergency department to Thiel-sur-Acolin is Centre hospitalier de Moulins, 12.7 mi away. Average lifespans in Allier: 84.8 years for women, 78.6 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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Retirement age and beyond: a quarter of residents are 65 or older. Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24, below Allier’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Graduates make up 19% of adults.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Allier 52.6%, France 51.8%.
| Thiel-sur-Acolin | Allier median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Allier median and France median: the median of compared communes
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 4.1 cases of violence against people and 4.7 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). The graded crime recorded most in Thiel-sur-Acolin was armed robbery (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, burglary and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
Nothing in Thiel-sur-Acolin 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 Thiel-sur-Acolin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thiel-sur-Acolin | 1,027 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Dompierre-sur-Besbre | 2,959 | 4.6 | A− | A+ | A+ | B− |
| Bourbon-Lancy Saône-et-Loire | 4,674 | 11 | A+ | A+ | A | B |
| Yzeure | 12,897 | 11 | A | A− | B | B+ |
| Moulins | 19,206 | 12 | B+ | A− | C− | B+ |
| Avermes | 4,074 | 14 | A+ | A− | A | A |
| Varennes-sur-Allier | 3,549 | 17 | C− | A | C | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Thiel-sur-Acolin has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Thiel-sur-Acolin grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Thiel-sur-Acolin is a commune of 1,027 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Moulins Communauté. 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.