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Population 1,983: a town in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.7 jobs per working resident; 4.3% unemployment. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (C). A 70 m² home at the median €1,868/m² costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Niortais.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saint-Symphorien 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 Saint-Symphorien does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Symphorien 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.
Saint-Symphorien has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Saint-Symphorien has 3 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 2 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1927.
15% 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 Saint-Symphorien.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 166 deaths in Saint-Symphorien from 2016 to 2025; there were 123, 26% fewer. 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. One GP practises locally.
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.
Half of residents lived on more than €29,220 a year per consumption unit, above both Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€24,720) and compared French towns (€25,970). Walking, cycling and public transport carried 5.6% of commuters at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 3.4 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.9 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Albert CamusNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 132 | 92%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €11.45/m² a month, between Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€9.89/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,868/m², comes from 54 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Symphorien from July 2023 to June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €9.12/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,868/m² | 54 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
2 of the 3 are houses and mansions. Its oldest listed monument dates from the 13th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 15% of the total, between Deux-Sèvres’ towns (16%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The share of residents under 15 is 17%. People aged 15 to 24 make up 8.6% of the town, lower than both Deux-Sèvres’ towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (11%). Line up the people of Saint-Symphorien by age and the one in the middle is 46.3.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Symphorien | Deux-Sèvres median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 9.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Deux-Sèvres median and France median: the median of compared communes
Recorded offenses in Saint-Symphorien came to 22 in 2025. Violence against people averaged 4.1 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 10.7. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Saint-Symphorien (2025).
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, 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, 26.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Saint-Symphorien. Best known first.
The list names few of Saint-Symphorien’s 3 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Symphorien 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Symphorien | 1,983 | — | — | B | — | A− |
| Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan | 2,967 | 2.7 | A− | B+ | B+ | C+ |
| Aiffres | 5,419 | 3.6 | A | A− | A | B |
| Niort | 59,854 | 4.2 | B | B | D | B+ |
| Magné | 2,728 | 4.4 | A | B | A− | B |
| Vouillé | 3,566 | 7.1 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Chauray | 7,221 | 7.9 | A+ | B | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Symphorien has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 11 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 68% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,868/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Symphorien grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saint-Symphorien is a commune of 1,983 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 November 9, 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.