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With 2,101 residents, it is a town in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Jobs & income is a strength too (A−) — 0.3 jobs per working resident; 4.2% unemployment. Walkability is its weak spot: just over three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,744/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Plaimpied-Givaudins 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 2 things Plaimpied-Givaudins does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plaimpied-Givaudins 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.
Plaimpied-Givaudins has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Plaimpied-Givaudins: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 11th century, and the first monument here was protected in 1840, on France’s very first list.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plaimpied-Givaudins.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €8.61/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 49 homes in Plaimpied-Givaudins.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,744/m² | 49 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
4.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Cher’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). After tax and benefits, the median income is €30,000 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 3.4% of working residents in Plaimpied-Givaudins didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Plaimpied-Givaudins is Abbaye Saint-Martin de Plaimpied. Protection here reaches back to the 11th century. Also worth knowing: 10% of its homes were built before 1919, close to Cher’s towns (10%) and above compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 7.6% of the town. Children under 15 make up 20%, above Cher’s towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Cher 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Plaimpied-Givaudins | Cher median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.6% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.6% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 40% | 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.
Life expectancy in Cher: 84 years for women and 78.4 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 121 residents of Plaimpied-Givaudins died, against 138 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 12% fewer. The town has one family doctor.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Of the graded crimes in Plaimpied-Givaudins, burglary came up most often (2025). Recorded offenses locally came to 8 in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 1.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 5.
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, sexual violence, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, 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, 60.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
The list names few of Plaimpied-Givaudins’ 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Abbaye Saint-Martin de Plaimpied: Photo: Brunodumaine · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Plaimpied-Givaudins yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaimpied-Givaudins | 2,101 | — | — | A | — | B− |
| Trouy | 4,055 | 4.3 | B | B | A | C |
| Bourges | 64,186 | 6.2 | C+ | B | C− | C+ |
| Saint-Germain-du-Puy | 4,779 | 7.1 | C | B+ | C− | B− |
| La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin | 3,681 | 7.3 | A | B | A+ | B− |
| Saint-Doulchard | 9,647 | 8.2 | B+ | C+ | C+ | B+ |
| Saint-Florent-sur-Cher | 6,463 | 9.3 | C− | B | C | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Plaimpied-Givaudins has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Plaimpied-Givaudins grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
Plaimpied-Givaudins is a commune of 2,101 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Bourges Plus. 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 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.