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A town in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, home to 4,240 people.
A good place to live, if you can afford it. Overall, Angoulins earns an A−, better than just over three quarters of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #5 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. Its standout strength is jobs & income: 1.1 jobs per working resident; 9.5% unemployment. Health outcomes beat most towns (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. What counts against it is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
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.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Angoulins does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Angoulins 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Angoulins has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 1908.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Angoulins.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €14.22/m² a month, above Charente-Maritime’s towns (€12.46/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. Houses were 90% of what sold. Renting a house costs an estimated €14.48/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,868/m² | 157 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
19.1% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, above Charente-Maritime’s towns (10.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Unemployment stands at 9.5%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 count for 12% of the people here. 35% of residents are 65 or over, near Charente-Maritime’s towns (36%) and higher than compared French towns (22%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 8%.
53% women, 47% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Angoulins | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Angoulins can choose among 3 GPs. Life expectancy at birth in Charente-Maritime is 85.5 years for women and 79.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 527 residents of Angoulins died, against 627 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 16% fewer.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its schools’ results rank #13 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. The closest collège is 2 mi off. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 3.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de l'AtlantiqueNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 97 | 93%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people averaged 3.4 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 20. In 2025, 76 offenses were recorded in Angoulins. Police and gendarmerie recorded 76 offenses in the graded categories locally 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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence and armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 5.1% 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.
Among the classé monuments in Angoulins is Église Saint-Pierre. Protection here reaches back to the 15th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 5.2% of the total, lower than both Charente-Maritime’s towns (8.7%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage, family days out and other places to visit in and near Angoulins. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Buzay3.1 km northeast, in La JarneChâteauChâteauChâteau de Cramahé3.3 km east, in Salles-sur-MerChâteauChâteauChâteau de l'Herbaudière4.1 km east, in Salles-sur-MerTheme parkTheme parkPop Corn Labyrinthe2.7 km northeast, in La JarneChâteauChâteauChâteau du Roullet4.6 km east, in Salles-sur-MerPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Angoulins has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: PHGCOM · Public domain
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Angoulins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angoulins | 4,240 | — | A− | D | C+ | A− |
| Aytré | 9,746 | 2.1 | C | D | C | C+ |
| La Jarne | 2,637 | 2.3 | — | C− | — | B− |
| Châtelaillon-Plage | 6,653 | 2.5 | B | D | C+ | B+ |
| Périgny | 8,877 | 3.7 | B+ | D− | C+ | A− |
| La Rochelle | 79,851 | 4.5 | C− | D | D | B |
| La Jarrie | 3,458 | 5 | — | C | — | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #23 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 27 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 75% of compared French towns and #13 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Angoulins grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Angoulins is a commune of 4,240 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de La Rochelle. 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.