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This town in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine has a population of 7,221.
Chauray’s strongest subject is jobs & income: 2.4 jobs per working resident; 7.6% unemployment. Add safety to its strengths — an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 11.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. At €2,196/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 5.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Niortais. The overall grade lands at A+, #7 of 21 in Deux-Sèvres. It comes out better than 97% of compared French towns.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Chauray does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Chauray 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.
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The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Chauray; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1988.
2.7% 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 Chauray.
129 offenses were reported in Chauray during 2025. Jobs outnumber working residents in Chauray (7,500 to 3,150): it draws people in from around. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes 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 armed robbery, 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, 2.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 594 residents of Chauray died, against 680 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% fewer. In Deux-Sèvres, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.3 years for women and 79.4 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. This Deux-Sèvres town has 6 family doctors.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 2.7% of the total. Its heritage reaches back to the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The middle age in Chauray is 46.5. The 15-to-24 age group makes up 9.6% of residents. A quarter of residents have reached 65.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Chauray | Deux-Sèvres median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 9.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Deux-Sèvres median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
No town in Deux-Sèvres costs more to buy into than Chauray, at €2,196/m², the highest of 24. Advertised rents are estimated at €11.41/m² a month, between Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€9.89/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house in Chauray goes for €2,215/m², an apartment for €2,105/m². 266 sales of houses and apartments in the town, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,196/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,215/m² | 225 |
| Apartments | €2,105/m² | 41 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The unemployment rate comes to 7.6%. No commute at all: 2.1% of working residents in Chauray at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Chauray; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: Eliane Promis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Temple protestant: Photo: Eliane Promis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Chauray yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
It grades A− for safety, #11 of 21 in Deux-Sèvres. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 35 burglaries and 37 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,196/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chauray grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Chauray is a commune of 7,221 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Niortais. 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.
