Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 9,746 in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Aytré grades C overall: better than 32% of compared French towns, and #24 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is walkability (A): 98% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 23% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Aytré does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Aytré 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 →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Aytré as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Slip way, in La Rochelle, 1.8 mi away.
2.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Aytré. Best known first.
AquariumAquarium de La Rochelle3 km northwest, in La Rochelle
MuseumMusée d'Orbigny Bernon3.9 km northwest, in La Rochelle
MuseumMusée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle3.8 km northwest, in La Rochelle
AttractionTour Saint-Nicolas3.4 km northwest, in La Rochelle
AttractionTour de la Chaîne3.4 km northwest, in La RochellePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Aytré.
For its 4,350 residents in work, Aytré has 7,050 jobs: 1.6 each. 3.3% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €25,730 a year per consumption unit, close to both Charente-Maritime’s towns (€26,025) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The split in Aytré: €3,569/m² for houses, €4,100/m² for apartments. Advertised rents are estimated at €14.26/m² a month, higher than both Charente-Maritime’s towns (€12.46/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses were 58% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,569/m² | 233 |
| Apartments | €4,100/m² | 168 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 230 offenses in Aytré in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 6.2 cases of violence against people and 20.8 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 0.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its two care homes for older people (143 places) count their residents as Aytré’s; allowing for them, deaths were 8% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 1,026 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,083, 6% more. Average lifespans in Charente-Maritime: 85.5 years for women, 79.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. There are 14 general practitioners locally.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 85% passed the bac pro, of 432 candidates at 4 lycées. School results put the town #24 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. At the five general lycées, 96% of 1,478 candidates passed the bac, 1.1 points below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de l'AtlantiqueNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 97 | 93%+3 pts |
| Lycée René-Josué ValinNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 417 | 98%±0 pts |
| Collège Fabre d'ÉglantineBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 111 | 93%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Over-65s are 24% of the population. Degrees are held by 38% of adults, above both Charente-Maritime’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (30%). Aytré has a median age of 42.7 years.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
| Aytré | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Aytré is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Aytré 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aytré | 9,746 | — | C | D | C | C+ |
| Périgny | 8,877 | 1.9 | B+ | D− | C+ | A− |
| Angoulins | 4,240 | 2.1 | A− | D | C+ | A− |
| La Jarne | 2,637 | 2.4 | — | C− | — | B− |
| La Rochelle | 79,851 | 2.6 | C− | D | D | B |
| Puilboreau | 6,765 | 3.3 | C | D | C− | D |
| Lagord | 7,802 | 3.7 | B+ | D | B− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C for safety, #26 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 29 burglaries and 79 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 58% of compared French towns and #24 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. 98% of 417 candidates passed the bac at Lycée René-Josué Valin in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Aytré grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Aytré is a commune of 9,746 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 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.