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A town of 1,486 in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire.
Lunery has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D−): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 13.9% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Lunery does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lunery 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 Lunery as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne usine métallurgique des Lavoirs, in Saint-Florent-sur-Cher, 2.2 mi away.
25% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lunery.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.94/m² a month, near Cher’s towns (€9.78/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A home here costs 3 years of the median income in Communauté de communes FerCher. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €6.54/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,044/m² | 48 |
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.
Life expectancy at birth in Cher is 84 years for women and 78.4 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Lunery come to 103 per 100 predicted. From 2016 to 2025, 132 residents of Lunery died, against 128 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 3% more. The nearest emergency department to Lunery is Centre hospitalier de la Tour Blanche, 12.3 mi away.
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 care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
5.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Cher’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €23,500 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 65-and-over age group makes up nearly a quarter of residents. Children under 15 make up 18%, above Cher’s towns (15%) and close to compared French towns (17%). Ages in Lunery split evenly at 46.3: half are older, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Cher 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Lunery | Cher median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 20% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Cher median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Lunery was criminal damage (2025). The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 2.7 violent offenses and 11.7 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In 2025, 9 offenses were recorded here.
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, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 37.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Lunery is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
4 notable people were born in Lunery.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunery | 1,486 | — | — | A | — | C− |
| Saint-Florent-sur-Cher | 6,463 | 3.4 | C− | B | C | D |
| Trouy | 4,055 | 8.1 | B | B | A | C |
| La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin | 3,681 | 8.8 | A | B | A+ | B− |
| Bourges | 64,186 | 12 | C+ | B | C− | C+ |
| Issoudun Indre | 11,159 | 12 | C− | A+ | D− | C |
| Saint-Doulchard | 9,647 | 12 | B+ | C+ | C+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lunery has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Lunery grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
Lunery is a commune of 1,486 people in the Communauté de communes FerCher. 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.