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The median price paid is €1,000/m². 674 people call this town in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine home.

Is Louin a good place to live?

At under 1,000 residents, Louin is too small for the grades other French towns get. The median price paid is €1,000/m². People aged 65 and over make up 30% of residents.

What makes Louin stand out

The 2 things Louin does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Hypogée gallo-romain
Hypogée gallo-romain · Classé · Photo: ArchéOdyssée · CC BY-SA 4.0
Louin’s story

Louin in pictures

Louin has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.

The oldest protected part dates from Antiquity; the first monument here was protected in 1890.

23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1890First protected: Croix du cimetière
  • 1916Most recently protected: Hypogée gallo-romain
Explore the history →

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Louin.

Who lives here

Fewer children live in Louin than in Deux-Sèvres’ towns or compared French towns: 11% are under 15

Among adults, 17% have a degree. Louin has a median age of 54.2 years. The 15-to-24 age group: 9.7%, near Deux-Sèvres’ towns (9.6%) and lower than compared French towns (11%).

54.2median age
LouinDeux-Sèvres medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma25%
CAP or BEP34%
Baccalauréat17%
Higher education17%

Women and men · all residents

50% women, 50% men

About an even split. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Louin
LouinDeux-Sèvres medianFrance median
Under 1511%16%17%
15–249.7%9.6%11%
25–4417%21%23%
45–6432%27%26%
65+30%26%22%
No diploma25%20%19%
CAP or BEP34%29%26%
Baccalauréat17%18%18%
Higher education17%25%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Deux-Sèvres median and France median: the median of compared communes

History

Old homes shape Louin: 23% were built before 1919, more than in Deux-Sèvres’ towns or compared French towns

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

The earliest of these monuments dates from Antiquity. Among the classé monuments in Louin is Hypogée gallo-romain.

2historic monuments

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé2
Inscrit0

Among them · Classé

Antiquity
oldest protected part
1890
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Work & commute

Fewer commuters in Louin walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Deux-Sèvres’ towns or compared French towns: 4.0%

Median disposable income comes to €23,280 a year per consumption unit. Louin holds 100 jobs; 300 of its residents are in work, so 0.4 jobs each. No commute at all: 2.2% of working residents here at the census.

4%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving93%
On foot3%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Bicycle1%
Public transport0%
100
jobs based in Louin, 0.4 per working resident
9.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€23,280
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
2%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Schools

96.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collège within 5 km, 6 points above the expected rate

Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

For collège, the closest is 2.9 mi away.

96.0%passed the brevet

Brevet pass rate · collèges within 5 km

Louin96.0%
Median of towns87.5%
SchoolLevelCandidatesPassed, 2025
Collège VoltaireNearest collègeCollègeCollège4696%+6 pts
96.0%
passed the brevet at the collèges, +6 pts against the expected rate
2.9 mi
to the nearest collège from the town center

Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Buying in Louin costs less than in Deux-Sèvres’ towns or across compared French towns: the median sale is €1,000/m²

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Advertised rents are estimated at €8.40/m² a month, below Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€9.89/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. 31 houses and apartments changed hands in Louin from July 2023 to June 2026. House rents are put at about €7.60/m² a month.

€1,000/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Louin€1,000/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Deux-Sèvres median€1,508/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€1,000/m²31
€8.40/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€6.38 to €11.07/m² a month)
€7.60/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Château d'Airvault and 8 more in and around Louin

Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Louin. Best known first.

All attractions →
Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (1)
Keep exploring

Everything we know about Louin

14pages on Louin

Landmarks

Louin has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.

All monuments →
Photo credits

Hypogée gallo-romain: Photo: ArchéOdyssée · CC BY-SA 4.0

Famous people from Louin

Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Louin as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.

How we find them →

Louin’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Deux-Sèvres →
AirvaultChâtillon-sur-ThouetParthenayThouarsBressuireArgentonnayAirvaultChâtillon-sur-ThouetParthenayThouarsBressuireArgentonnayLouin
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Louin674—————
Airvault3,3062.6A+AA−B−
Châtillon-sur-Thouet2,6569.7—A—A−
Parthenay10,14011B+A−DB+
Thouars13,89113A−AC−B+
Bressuire19,97015B+BB−A
Argentonnay3,23417AA+AC

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Louin

Commune in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Louin is a commune of 674 people in the Communauté de communes Airvaudais-Val du Thouet. 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

Population
674 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Airvaudais-Val du Thouet
Département
Deux-Sèvres (79)
Région
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Area
7.9 sq mi (20.5 km²)
INSEE code
79156

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.