Val-de-Bonnieure’s best grade is for cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around depends on the car (D). It lags on jobs & income as well: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 9.5% unemployment. The median sale price is €1,198/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Val-de-Bonnieure 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 Val-de-Bonnieure 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.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income C
Fewer commuters in Val-de-Bonnieure walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Charente’s towns or compared French towns: 3.8%
Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, below both Charente’s towns (11.0%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €24,810 a year per consumption unit. No commute at all: 6.6% of working residents in Val-de-Bonnieure at the census.
4%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving88%
On foot2%
Motorbike or scooter2%
Bicycle1%
Public transport1%
300
jobs based in Val-de-Bonnieure, 0.5 per working resident
9.5%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,810
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
7%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
D
Walkability: better than 12% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Older residents shape Val-de-Bonnieure: 30% are 65 or over, above Charente’s towns and compared French towns
Degrees are held by just over a fifth of adults, below both Charente’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (30%). The 15-to-24 age group makes up nearly one in ten residents. The middle age in Val-de-Bonnieure is 49.9.
49.9median age
Val-de-BonnieureCharente medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
30%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma27%
CAP or BEP31%
Baccalauréat16%
Higher education22%
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente 52.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Charente median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Val-de-Bonnieure keeps more of its old housing than Charente’s towns or compared French towns: 30% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its heritage reaches back to the 12th century. Among the classé monuments in Val-de-Bonnieure is Église Saint-Amant. The Culture ministry lists 4 historic monuments locally: 3 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B
Adjusted for age and care homes, Val-de-Bonnieure sees fewer deaths than 59% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (63 places) counts its residents as Val-de-Bonnieure’s; allowing for it, deaths were 15% below expected. 244 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 220: 11% above. The nearest emergency department to Val-de-Bonnieure is Centre hospitalier de Ruffec, 13.4 mi away. This Charente town has 2 family doctors.
−15%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw111
Adjusted85
Median town88
Expected100
2
GPs in Val-de-Bonnieure · 3.8 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
13.4 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Ruffec
15 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre Clinical Sa
85.7 · 79
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Charente, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Val-de-Bonnieure
Is Val-de-Bonnieure safe?
Val-de-Bonnieure has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 4.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Is Val-de-Bonnieure expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Val-de-Bonnieure grades A for cost of living.
About Val-de-Bonnieure
Commune in Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Val-de-Bonnieure is a commune of 1,332 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur de Charente. 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
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.
