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With 2,330 residents, it is a town in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It skews older: 35% of residents are 65 or over.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 7.7% unemployment. Health is a strength (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying 70 m² at the median €1,881/m² takes 5.2 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération de Saintes - Grandes Rives - L'Agglo. It is hard to get around without a car: 20% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Fontcouverte 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 3 things Fontcouverte does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Fontcouverte 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.
Fontcouverte has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Fontcouverte 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 Antiquity; the first monument here was protected in 2014.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Fontcouverte. Best known first.
Archaeological siteAmphithéâtre de Saintes4.5 km southwest, in Saintes
Monastery or conventAbbaye aux Dames de Saintes3.4 km southwest, in Saintes
MuseumMusée de l'Échevinage de Saintes3.9 km southwest, in Saintes
MuseumMusée Dupuy-Mestreau4.1 km southwest, in SaintesAttractionAttractionArc de Germanicus3.6 km southwest, in SaintesPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Fontcouverte.
Median disposable income comes to €28,900 a year per consumption unit. 3.5% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Charente-Maritime’s towns (10.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Unemployment runs at 7.7%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
7.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24. People 65 and over make up 35% of the town, close to Charente-Maritime’s towns (36%) and above compared French towns (22%). Under 15: 13% of residents.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
| Fontcouverte | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.7% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 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.
From 2016 to 2025, 370 residents of Fontcouverte died, against 366 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 1% more. 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. For a family doctor, residents of Fontcouverte can choose among 2 GPs.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Fontcouverte, 95.8% of lycée candidates passed the bac, above Charente-Maritime’s towns (93.8%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The nearest collège is 1.6 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
82 sales of houses and apartments in Fontcouverte, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,881/m². House rents are put at about €9.44/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,881/m² | 82 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Fontcouverte is Aqueduc gallo-romain de Saintes. Protection here reaches back to Antiquity. Homes from before 1919 make up nearly a tenth of the total, near Charente-Maritime’s towns (8.7%) and higher than compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Fontcouverte has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Aqueduc gallo-romain de Saintes: Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Aqueduc gallo-romain de Saintes: Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Aqueduc gallo-romain de Saintes: Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Aqueduc gallo-romain de Saintes: Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Fontcouverte 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fontcouverte | 2,330 | — | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Saintes | 25,363 | 2.5 | C | C+ | D− | C+ |
| Chaniers | 3,651 | 2.9 | — | B− | — | C |
| Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux | 2,843 | 5.4 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Val-de-Cognac Charente | 3,471 | 11 | A | A− | A+ | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-d'Angély | 6,784 | 13 | C− | B | D− | C− |
| Pons | 4,343 | 13 | C− | B | C− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fontcouverte has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.2 recorded violent incidents and 3.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B+, better than 69% of compared French towns. 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 €1,881/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Fontcouverte grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Fontcouverte is a commune of 2,330 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 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.