At C overall, Bléré is better than just over a third of compared French towns and ranks #33 of 37 in Indre-et-Loire. Its lowest grade is for schools — brevet results 4 points below the expected rate. Crime is the sore point: an average of 10.4 recorded violent incidents and 15.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. A 70 m² home at the median €2,262/m² costs 5.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Autour de Chenonceaux Bléré-Val de Cher. Fewer journeys need a car: just over three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for health and B− for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Bléré 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.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bléré.
Schools
Exam results around Bléré trail 79% of compared French towns
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Bléré, 85.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, below Indre-et-Loire’s towns (88.3%) and compared French towns (87.5%) alike. Results rank its schools #37 of 40 in Indre-et-Loire. General-bac pupils go 5.6 mi to the nearest lycée.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
An older town: 30% of people in Bléré are 65 or over, more than in both Indre-et-Loire’s towns and compared French towns
Children under 15 make up 15%, below both Indre-et-Loire’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for nearly one in ten residents. Degrees are held by 23% of adults.
49.1median age
BléréIndre-et-Loire medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
30%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma23%
CAP or BEP32%
Baccalauréat17%
Higher education23%
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Indre-et-Loire 51.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Indre-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Safety
Per resident, Bléré sees more crime than 70% of compared French towns
All told, Bléré had 154 recorded offenses in 2025. The commonest graded crime locally was criminal damage (2025).
10.4recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearCSafety Grade
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage50
Theft from vehicles25
Burglary19
Other physical violence16
Sexual violence16
Vehicle theft16
Family violence12
Fraud41
Theft without violence32
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.
10.4
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
15.8
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
154
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
0.2%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 0.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Work & commuteJobs & income B−
Unemployment in Bléré is higher than in 68% of French communes of 1,000+
For its 2,100 residents in work, Bléré has 2,050 jobs: 1 each. Public transport took 3.9% of the town’s working residents to work at the census. 10.3% of people in the labour force have no job.
12%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving81%
On foot6%
Public transport4%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter2%
2,050
jobs based in Bléré, 1 per working resident
10.3%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,020
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
5%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 61% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
History
Bléré keeps more of its old housing than Indre-et-Loire’s towns or compared French towns: 21% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Bléré counts 4 historic monuments: 3 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second. Among the classé monuments locally is Église Saint-Christophe. The protected list starts in the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B
Bléré records 86 deaths for every 100 its ages predict, against 79 in Indre-et-Loire’s towns and 88 in compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 955 residents of Bléré died, against 838 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% more. In Indre-et-Loire, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.1 years for women and 81 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. The town has 6 family doctors.
−14%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw114
Adjusted86
Median town88
Expected100
6
GPs in Bléré · 4.1 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
6 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Inter Communal Amboise Chateau Renault
14.3 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Pole Sante Leonard de Vinci
86.1 · 81
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Indre-et-Loire, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
182 sales of houses and apartments in Bléré, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,262/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €11.47/m² a month, lower than both Indre-et-Loire’s towns (€12.32/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses were 94% of what sold.
€2,262/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Bléré€2,262/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Indre-et-Loire median€2,465/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,222/m²
171
€11.47/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.89 to €14.80/m² a month)
5.9
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€9.22/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€27,040
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Autour de Chenonceaux Bléré-Val de Cher
Église Saint-Christophe: Photo: Damien T · Public domain · Maison dite Fief de Bois Ramé: Photo: photographe anonyme · Public domain · Maison dite Le Belvédère: Photo: GOETGHELUCK PATRICK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chapelle de l'ancien cimetière, dite chapelle de Seigne: Photo: Rosier · CC BY-SA 3.0
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Bléré
Is Bléré safe?
It grades C for safety, #27 of 37 in Indre-et-Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 19 burglaries and 50 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Bléré good?
They grade C−, better than 21% of compared French towns and #37 of 40 in Indre-et-Loire. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Bléré expensive to live in?
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,262/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bléré grades B− for cost of living.
About Bléré
Commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Bléré is a commune of 5,352 people in the Communauté de communes Autour de Chenonceaux Bléré-Val de Cher. 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
5,352 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Autour de Chenonceaux Bléré-Val de Cher
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