Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 2,117 residents, it is a town in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Le Thou’s lowest grade is for walkability (C−): 54% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,486/m²: 70 m² comes to 6.9 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Aunis Sud. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for schools, B− for health and C+ for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Le Thou 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.
Each subject compares Le Thou 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.
Le Thou 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 Le Thou as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Dolmen dit La Pierre Levée, in Ardillières, 3.3 mi away.
11% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Thou.
5.3% 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%). For its 1,000 residents in work, Le Thou has 500 jobs: 0.5 each. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €24,800 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 16% of the town, below Charente-Maritime’s towns (36%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. The 15-to-24 age group makes up 9.2% of residents. Degrees are held by a quarter of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
| Le Thou | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,486/m², comes from 71 sales of houses and apartments in Le Thou from July 2023 to June 2026. Renting a house costs an estimated €12.43/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,486/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Le Thou is Centre hospitalier Rochefort, 8.5 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 102 residents of Le Thou died, against 115 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% fewer. Women in Charente-Maritime live to 85.5 on average and men to 79.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The town has 4 family doctors.
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. 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.
The closest collège is 2.1 mi off. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 8.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège André DulinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 176 | 88%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 4.1 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 9.9. Police and gendarmerie figures for Le Thou show 23 offenses in 2025. Also worth knowing: 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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 33.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and other places to visit in and near Le Thou. Best known first.
Nothing in Le Thou is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Le Thou 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Thou | 2,117 | — | — | C+ | — | B− |
| Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis | 4,677 | 1.9 | B+ | C− | A | B− |
| La Jarrie | 3,458 | 4.6 | — | C | — | B+ |
| La Jarne | 2,637 | 7.3 | — | C− | — | B− |
| Châtelaillon-Plage | 6,653 | 7.6 | B | D | C+ | B+ |
| Sainte-Soulle | 5,034 | 8.5 | — | C− | — | A− |
| Angoulins | 4,240 | 8.7 | A− | D | C+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Thou has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 51% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,486/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Le Thou grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Le Thou is a commune of 2,117 people in the Communauté de communes Aunis Sud. 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.