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461 residents make their home in this town in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire.
Charnizay has no grades yet: French towns are graded from 1,000 residents up. Holiday and other second homes account for nearly a quarter of homes. It skews older: 29% of residents are 65 or over.
The 2 things Charnizay does most differently from other towns.
Charnizay has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1951.
46% 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 Charnizay.
People 65 and over make up 29% of the town, above both Indre-et-Loire’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Children under 15 make up 14% of residents. The age that splits Charnizay in two is 52.7.
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Indre-et-Loire 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Charnizay | Indre-et-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.6% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Indre-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Charnizay is Dolmen dit Les Palets-de-Gargantua. The protected list starts in prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
At the census, 7.5% of commuters got to work without a car. Unemployment stood at 6.5%, lower than both Indre-et-Loire’s towns (8.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Charnizay has 100 jobs for 200 working residents, 0.6 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Sales in Charnizay from July 2023 to June 2026: 26 houses and apartments.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Charnizay has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Dolmen dit Les Palets-de-Gargantua: Photo: DoucF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Charnizay yet.
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Commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Charnizay is a commune of 461 people in the Communauté de communes Loches Sud Touraine. 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) · 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.