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3,566 people live in this town in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Where it falls short is walkability — just over a third of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €2,117/m² costs 5.5 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. Vouillé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Vouillé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vouillé 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.
Vouillé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Vouillé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1963.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vouillé.
Half of residents lived on more than €29,370 a year per consumption unit, above both Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€24,720) and compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 3.2% of working residents in Vouillé didn’t travel to work at all. 3.0% of the town’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 93% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
284 deaths in Vouillé between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 340: 16% below. 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. 4 GPs practise in the town.
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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Vouillé is the second most expensive of the 24 towns in Deux-Sèvres, at €2,117/m². 126 sales of houses and apartments in the town, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,117/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €9.89/m² a month, near Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€9.89/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,095/m² | 123 |
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.
Homes from before 1919 make up just over a tenth of the total. The oldest protected building goes back to the 14th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
People aged 15 to 24 make up 7.6% of the town, lower than both Deux-Sèvres’ towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (11%). Under 15: 18% of residents. The median resident of Vouillé is 46.3 years old.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Vouillé | Deux-Sèvres median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.6% | 9.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Deux-Sèvres median and France median: the median of compared communes
More of the graded crimes in Vouillé were criminal damage than anything else (2025). The 2025 count: 31 offenses in the town. Violence against people ran at 2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.2 (2023–2025 average).
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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 32.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Vouillé has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Notre-Dame: Photo: Niala6433 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Vouillé yet.
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Vouillé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 15 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,117/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Vouillé grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Vouillé is a commune of 3,566 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 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.