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1,573 people live in this town in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Over-65s are only 11% of the population.
People here tend to be in good health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Homes sell for a median €2,800/m²: 70 m² comes to 7.6 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Aunis Atlantique. It is hard to get around without a car: 14% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for schools and B for jobs & income.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Ferrières 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 Ferrières does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ferrières 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.
Ferrières has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ferrières as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Tumulus B et C de Champ-Châlon, in Benon, 2.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ferrières.
People 65 and over make up just over a tenth of the town, below both Charente-Maritime’s towns (36%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 7.9% of the town. The age that splits Ferrières in two is 34.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
| Ferrières | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 36% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 21% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 11% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 25% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
3.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Charente-Maritime’s towns (10.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Ferrières holds 450 jobs; 850 of its residents are in work, so 0.5 jobs each.
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.
In Charente-Maritime, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.5 years for women and 79.6 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. 51 deaths in Ferrières between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 63: 19% below. The nearest emergency department to Ferrières is Hopital Saint Louis la Rochelle, 14.5 mi away.
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 C− to A.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 9.8 mi away. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MonnetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 190 | 91%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
73 sales of houses and apartments in Ferrières, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,800/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,800/m² | 73 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Among the graded crimes in Ferrières, the most frequent was vehicle theft (2025). Violence against people ran at 5.3 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.9 (2023–2025 average). In 2025, 16 offenses were recorded locally.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 53.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Ferrières is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Ferrières 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferrières | 1,573 | — | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-Liversay | 3,063 | 3 | — | C | — | A |
| Sainte-Soulle | 5,034 | 8.2 | — | C− | — | A− |
| Marans | 4,476 | 8.4 | B | B− | B− | B− |
| Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis | 4,677 | 8.6 | B+ | C− | A | B− |
| Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon Deux-Sèvres | 2,941 | 9.5 | A+ | A− | A | B |
| Surgères | 6,897 | 9.9 | C− | C+ | D | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ferrières has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B, better than 65% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,800/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Ferrières grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Ferrières is a commune of 1,573 people in the Communauté de communes Aunis Atlantique. 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.