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2,023 people live in this town in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire.
Homes are affordable: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 1% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs & income is weaker too — 1.1 jobs per working resident; 12.3% unemployment. 11% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Argent-sur-Sauldre 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.
The 3 things Argent-sur-Sauldre does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Argent-sur-Sauldre 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.
Argent-sur-Sauldre has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Argent-sur-Sauldre: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1944.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Argent-sur-Sauldre.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €1,081/m², lower than both Cher’s towns (€1,298/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses were 98% of what sold. Sales in Argent-sur-Sauldre from July 2023 to June 2026: 85 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,085/m² | 83 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Under-15s account for 13% of the population. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 7.9% of residents, below both Cher’s towns (9.2%) and compared French towns (11%). The age that splits Argent-sur-Sauldre in two is 55.1.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Cher 52.2%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Argent-sur-Sauldre | Cher median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 36% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 20% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Cher median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 333 deaths in Argent-sur-Sauldre from 2016 to 2025; there were 403, 21% more. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 101 per 100 expected, near Cher’s towns (97) and higher than compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Argent-sur-Sauldre is Centrehospitalier Pierre Dezarnaulds Gien, 12.9 mi away. Life expectancy in Cher: 84 years for women and 78.4 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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.
For 2025, the figures show 26 offenses in Argent-sur-Sauldre. Violence against people averaged 3.4 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 12.4. Also worth knowing: more of the graded crimes in the town were burglary than anything else (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, 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, 18.4% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 13th century. Among the classé monuments in Argent-sur-Sauldre is Église Saint-André.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Unemployment stands at 12.3%. Half of residents lived on more than €23,640 a year per consumption unit, near Cher’s towns (€24,000) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970). 5.5% of Argent-sur-Sauldre’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, museums and family days out in and near Argent-sur-Sauldre. Best known first.
The list names few of Argent-sur-Sauldre’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-André: Photo: Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 3.0
4 notable people were born in Argent-sur-Sauldre.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argent-sur-Sauldre | 2,023 | — | — | A+ | A− | C− |
| Aubigny-sur-Nère | 5,451 | 4.9 | B+ | A | B− | C− |
| Gien Loiret | 13,459 | 13 | C− | B+ | C− | C− |
| Châtillon-sur-Loire Loiret | 3,065 | 14 | A− | A− | B+ | B− |
| Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 5,124 | 14 | C | A− | C+ | C+ |
| Ouzouer-sur-Loire Loiret | 2,543 | 15 | — | A− | — | D |
| Briare Loiret | 4,911 | 15 | C | A− | C | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 10 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Argent-sur-Sauldre grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
Argent-sur-Sauldre is a commune of 2,023 people in the Communauté de communes Sauldre et Sologne. 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.