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A town in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, home to 3,651 people.
Chaniers’s strongest subject is schools — bac results 0.6 points above the expected rate; brevet results a point below the expected rate. Where it falls short is walkability: 38% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 2% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €1,762/m² costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération de Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo. It also trails on jobs & income — 0.4 jobs per working resident; 10.1% unemployment.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Chaniers has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Chaniers does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Chaniers 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.
Chaniers has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Chaniers: 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 1912.
17% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Chaniers. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chaniers.
At the census, 2.3% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Charente-Maritime’s towns (10.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment runs at 10.1%.
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.
After the care-home adjustment, Chaniers’ deaths ran at 96 per 100 expected, above Charente-Maritime’s towns (89) and compared French towns (88) alike. From 2016 to 2025, 351 residents of Chaniers died, against 365 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 4% fewer. Life expectancy in Charente-Maritime: 85.5 years for women and 79.6 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
26% of adults hold a degree, close to Charente-Maritime’s towns (27%) and below compared French towns (30%). Under-15s account for 15% of the population. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 7.6% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
| Chaniers | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.6% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Chaniers, 95.7% of lycée candidates passed the bac, above both Charente-Maritime’s towns (93.8%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Schools rank #15 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. Also worth knowing: a collège lies 2.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Agrippa d'AubignéNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 150 | 92%−1 pt |
| Lycée Bernard PalissyNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 242 | 97%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Bernard PalissyBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 66 | 91%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Chaniers is Église Saint-Pierre. The oldest protected building goes back to the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,762/m², comes from 124 sales of houses and apartments in Chaniers from July 2023 to June 2026. Renting a house costs an estimated €8.65/m² a month. Advertised rents are estimated at €11.78/m² a month, below Charente-Maritime’s towns (€12.46/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,762/m² | 124 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
28 offenses were reported in Chaniers during 2025. Violence against people ran at 1.6 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.6 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes in the town were criminal damage than anything else (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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (26.1% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Chaniers has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: FrenchCobber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Chaniers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaniers | 3,651 | — | — | B− | — | C |
| Saintes | 25,363 | 3.7 | C | C+ | D− | C+ |
| Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux | 2,843 | 7.6 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Val-de-Cognac Charente | 3,471 | 9.6 | A | A− | A+ | B+ |
| Pons | 4,343 | 11 | C− | B | C− | C+ |
| Cognac Charente | 18,532 | 11 | B | B+ | D | C+ |
| Châteaubernard Charente | 3,878 | 12 | A+ | B+ | B+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Chaniers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 14 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 70% of compared French towns and #15 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. 97% of 242 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Bernard Palissy in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,762/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chaniers grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Chaniers is a commune of 3,651 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo. 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.