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A town of 4,125 in Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Brie grades A+ overall: better than 97% of compared French towns, and #2 of 26 in Charente. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 18% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €1,739/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Angoulême. Its strongest is safety (A+): an average of 1.2 recorded violent incidents and 5.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Brie does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Brie 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Brie as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Sainte-Eulalie, in Champniers, 2.9 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Brie.
No compared town in Charente has less graded crime per resident than Brie: it ranks first of 26. Police and gendarmerie recorded 21 offenses in the graded categories in Brie in 2025. 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, 24.0% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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 Brie, that is below both Charente’s towns (11.0%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Brie has 1,300 jobs for 2,150 working residents, 0.6 per worker. At the census, 5.1% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Brie sits below both Charente’s towns (€10.82/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) on this measure. The median price, €1,739/m², comes from 87 sales of houses and apartments in Brie from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,739/m² | 87 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
That puts Brie above both Charente’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up 19% of the town.
46% women, 54% men
About 120 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente 52.4%, France 51.8%.
| Brie | Charente median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 14% | 9.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 25% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 228 residents of Brie died, against 256 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% fewer. The adjustment lowers most towns’ figures, so the comparison is what counts: the median of compared French towns is 12% below expected. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
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
Nothing in Brie is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Brie.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brie | 4,125 | — | A+ | A− | A+ | B− |
| Champniers | 5,281 | 3.2 | B+ | A− | B | B |
| Ruelle-sur-Touvre | 7,408 | 3.8 | C+ | B+ | B− | C+ |
| Magnac-sur-Touvre | 3,255 | 4.6 | A | A− | A+ | A− |
| L'Isle-d'Espagnac | 5,682 | 5.5 | A− | B | B | A− |
| La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois | 4,025 | 5.7 | B+ | B | B− | A+ |
| Gond-Pontouvre | 5,862 | 5.9 | C | B+ | D | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 26 in Charente. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 12 burglaries and 9 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,739/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Brie grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Brie is a commune of 4,125 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Angoulême. 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.