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A town of 1,883 in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 22% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Work and incomes lag (C−): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 8.4% unemployment. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 52% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At €1,750/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Aunis Sud.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saint-Georges-du-Bois 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 Saint-Georges-du-Bois 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.
Saint-Georges-du-Bois has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Saint-Georges-du-Bois does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Georges-du-Bois as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame, in Surgères, 2.8 mi away.
29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Georges-du-Bois is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Georges-du-Bois.
The median disposable income was €24,170 a year per consumption unit, below both Charente-Maritime’s towns (€26,025) and compared French towns (€25,970). Unemployment runs at 8.4%. At the census, 5.9% of working residents in Saint-Georges-du-Bois didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
Saint-Georges-du-Bois has 4 family doctors. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Georges-du-Bois is Centre hospitalier Rochefort, 16.4 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 159 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 124, 22% fewer. Life expectancy at birth in Charente-Maritime is 85.5 years for women and 79.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,750/m²: 61 houses and apartments sold in Saint-Georges-du-Bois between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,750/m² | 61 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For collège, the closest is 2.5 mi away. At the general lycée, 97% of 67 candidates passed the bac, a point below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Hélène de FonsèqueNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 135 | 87%−2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent du Pays d'AunisNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 67 | 97%−1 pt |
| Collège privé Jeanne d'Arc PrivateBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 46 | 100%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by just over a quarter of adults, near Charente-Maritime’s towns (27%) and lower than compared French towns (30%). Children under 15 make up 18% of residents. 22% of residents have reached 65.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Georges-du-Bois | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente-Maritime median and France median: the median of compared communes
29 offenses were reported in Saint-Georges-du-Bois during 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.8 cases of violence against people and 9.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Also worth knowing: the commonest graded crime in the town was family violence (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 other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft 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 (31.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Saint-Georges-du-Bois. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Saint-Georges-du-Bois as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saint-Georges-du-Bois is a commune of 1,883 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Georges-du-Bois | 1,883 | — | — | B | — | A− |
| Surgères | 6,897 | 2.7 | C− | C+ | D | C+ |
| Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon Deux-Sèvres | 2,941 | 4.8 | A+ | A− | A | B |
| Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis | 4,677 | 9.7 | B+ | C− | A | B− |
| Saint-Jean-de-Liversay | 3,063 | 11 | — | C | — | A |
| Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan Deux-Sèvres | 2,967 | 12 | A− | B+ | B+ | C+ |
| La Jarrie | 3,458 | 13 | — | C | — | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Georges-du-Bois 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 9 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 46% of compared French towns. 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 €1,750/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saint-Georges-du-Bois grades B for cost of living.
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 8, 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.