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With 5,034 residents, it is a town in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is weaker too: 64% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Sainte-Soulle has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Sainte-Soulle 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.
Sainte-Soulle has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The one thing Sainte-Soulle does most differently from other towns.
Sainte-Soulle has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 10th century; the first monument here was protected in 1989.
Sainte-Soulle has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Église Saint-Laurent: Photo: Tux-Man · Public domain
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sainte-Soulle.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €3,009/m², comes from 161 sales of houses and apartments in Sainte-Soulle from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses were 96% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,999/m² | 154 |
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.
Average lifespans in Charente-Maritime: 85.5 years for women, 79.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. France’s death rates at each age would predict 330 deaths in Sainte-Soulle from 2016 to 2025; there were 248, 25% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Sainte-Soulle is Hopital Saint Louis la Rochelle, 6.4 mi away. This Charente-Maritime town has 6 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 3.9% of commuters at the census. Sainte-Soulle holds 1,050 jobs; 2,400 of its residents are in work, so 0.4 jobs each. Households’ median disposable income: €28,190 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are one in ten residents, higher than Charente-Maritime’s towns (7.6%) yet lower than compared French towns (11%). 19% of residents are children under 15. Among adults, 37% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
| Sainte-Soulle | Charente-Maritime median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 7.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 17% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 36% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 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.
Among the classé monuments in Sainte-Soulle is Église Saint-Laurent. The protected list starts in the 10th century. Also worth knowing: the pre-1919 share of homes is 11%.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 6.1 mi off. The town’s pupils have a collège 1.8 mi away. By results, schools here place #31 of 44 in Charente-Maritime.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marc ChagallNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 225 | 90%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Graded property crimes ran at 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 1.7 (2023–2025 average). Recorded offenses in Sainte-Soulle came to 36 in 2025. 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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery and burglary, 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, 26.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Sainte-Soulle. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Sainte-Soulle as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sainte-Soulle is a commune of 5,034 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Soulle | 5,034 | — | — | C− | — | A− |
| Dompierre-sur-Mer | 6,315 | 2.2 | B+ | D | A− | A− |
| Saint-Xandre | 5,677 | 3.8 | B+ | D | A+ | B+ |
| Périgny | 8,877 | 4.3 | B+ | D− | C+ | A− |
| Puilboreau | 6,765 | 4.6 | C | D | C− | D |
| La Jarrie | 3,458 | 4.6 | — | C | — | B+ |
| La Jarne | 2,637 | 5.2 | — | C− | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Sainte-Soulle has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 45% of compared French towns and #31 of 44 in Charente-Maritime. 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 €3,009/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Sainte-Soulle grades C− 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 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.