Where it does best is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its schools fall short (D): brevet results 9 points below the expected rate. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for health and B− for walkability. Homes go for a median €1,252/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Champdeniers 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 Champdeniers 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.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Older residents shape Champdeniers: 28% are 65 or over, above Deux-Sèvres’ towns and compared French towns
Children under 15 count for 15% of the people here. Degrees are held by a quarter of adults, near Deux-Sèvres’ towns (25%) and lower than compared French towns (30%). Also worth knowing: the age that splits Champdeniers in two is 47.2.
47.2median age
ChampdeniersDeux-Sèvres medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
28%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma22%
CAP or BEP28%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education25%
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Deux-Sèvres median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Champdeniers keeps more of its old housing than Deux-Sèvres’ towns or compared French towns: 24% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. Among the classé monuments in Champdeniers is Église Notre-Dame de Champdeniers. The town has 3 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 2 inscrit, the second level.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B−
Champdeniers has a higher adjusted death rate than 53% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Champdeniers is Polyclinique D Inkermann, 12 mi away. Its two care homes for older people (181 places) count their residents as Champdeniers’; allowing for them, deaths were 11% below expected. There are 3 general practitioners here. At birth, a girl in Deux-Sèvres can expect 85.3 years and a boy 79.4 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
−11%deaths against expected, after care homesB−Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw153
Adjusted89
Median town88
Expected100
3
GPs in Champdeniers · 2 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
12 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Polyclinique D Inkermann
12 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Niort
85.3 · 79.4
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Deux-Sèvres, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Champdeniers has lower unemployment than Deux-Sèvres’ towns or compared French towns: 7.2%
Champdeniers has 900 jobs for 800 working residents, 1.1 per worker. 6.9% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Deux-Sèvres’ towns (7.5%) and compared French towns (13.4%). At the census, 3.2% of working residents in Champdeniers didn’t travel to work at all.
7%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving89%
On foot5%
Public transport1%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
900
jobs based in Champdeniers, 1.1 per working resident
7.2%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,920
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 49% of compared French towns
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Champdeniers
Is Champdeniers safe?
Champdeniers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.4 recorded violent incidents and 9.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Are schools in Champdeniers good?
They grade D, better than 7% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Champdeniers expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Champdeniers grades A for cost of living.
About Champdeniers
Commune in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Champdeniers is a commune of 1,784 people in the Communauté de communes Val de Gâtine. 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.
