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A town in Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, home to 1,546 people.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools do well: bac results a point below the expected rate; brevet results 4 points above the expected rate. The weak point is walkability — 15% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes lag: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 9.9% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Montgivray 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 Montgivray does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Montgivray 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.
Montgivray has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Montgivray, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Montgivray. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montgivray.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €1,049/m², lower than both Indre’s towns (€1,176/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses made up 98% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. The market in Montgivray: 60 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,049/m² | 59 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
5.2% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Indre’s towns (12.0%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Of those in the labour force, 9.9% are unemployed. Also worth knowing: after tax and benefits, the median income is €25,240 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 7.2% of residents, below both Indre’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (11%). 33% of residents are 65 or over. Graduates make up a fifth of adults.
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Indre 53.6%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Montgivray | Indre median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Indre median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 88% passed the bac pro, of 48 candidates. The nearest collège is 0.9 mi away. At the lycées within 5 km of Montgivray, 93.5% passed the bac, about level with both Indre’s towns (92.8%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège George SandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 102 | 91%+4 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent George SandNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 107 | 96%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Montgivray records 94 deaths per 100 expected, close to Indre’s towns (96) and above compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 196 residents of Montgivray died, against 207 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 6% fewer. In Indre, life expectancy at birth reaches 84 years for women and 76.9 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Montgivray, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Violence against people ran at 4 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 13.2 (2023–2025 average). Over 2025, Montgivray logged 35 recorded offenses. The graded crime recorded most here was criminal damage (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, 29.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Montgivray has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Montgivray.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgivray | 1,546 | — | — | A+ | — | C |
| La Châtre | 4,037 | 1.2 | A− | A | D | A− |
| Ardentes | 3,715 | 13 | A+ | A | A | B− |
| Le Poinçonnet | 5,855 | 18 | A | B+ | A | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montgivray 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 22 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 69% of compared French towns. 96% of 107 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent George Sand in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Montgivray grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Indre, Centre-Val de Loire
Montgivray is a commune of 1,546 people in the Communauté de communes de la Châtre et Sainte-Sévère. 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.