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Some 3,176 people live in this town, in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 34% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its weakest subject is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The median price paid is €3,628/m². 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Marsilly has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Marsilly does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Marsilly 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.
Marsilly has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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Marsilly 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 the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1907.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Marsilly.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
4 GPs practise in Marsilly. At birth, a girl in Charente-Maritime can expect 85.5 years and a boy 79.6 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. Also worth knowing: 207 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 316: 34% below.
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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Marsilly recorded 125 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026. Of the homes sold, 94% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,676/m² | 117 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
6.7% of the labour force were unemployed, below Charente-Maritime’s towns (11.0%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Jobs located in Marsilly: 400, for 1,350 residents in work (0.3 each). At the census, 5.9% of working residents in Marsilly went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 7.9% of the population. People 65 and over make up 30% of the town, between Charente-Maritime’s towns (36%) and compared French towns (22%). Children are 14% of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
| Marsilly | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.7% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 14th century. Among the classé monuments in Marsilly is Église Saint-Pierre. One in ten homes were built before 1919.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The commonest graded crime in Marsilly was criminal damage (2025). Graded property crimes ran at 7.6 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 1.9 (2023–2025 average). 22 offenses were reported in Marsilly during 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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 31.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and gardens in and near Marsilly. Best known first.
Marsilly has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: Denis Helfer · CC BY 2.5
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Marsilly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsilly | 3,176 | — | — | D | — | A+ |
| Nieul-sur-Mer | 5,811 | 2.3 | A | D | A+ | A |
| Saint-Xandre | 5,677 | 2.4 | B+ | D | A+ | B+ |
| Puilboreau | 6,765 | 3.4 | C | D | C− | D |
| Lagord | 7,802 | 3.5 | B+ | D | B− | B |
| L'Houmeau | 3,000 | 3.7 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Dompierre-sur-Mer | 6,315 | 4.5 | B+ | D | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Marsilly 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 13 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Marsilly grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Marsilly is a commune of 3,176 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.