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Some 1,112 people live in this town, in Indre, Centre-Val de Loire.
Tournon-Saint-Martin’s best grade is for cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on jobs & income as well: 1.1 jobs per working resident; 11.2% unemployment. 16% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Tournon-Saint-Martin 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.
Each subject compares Tournon-Saint-Martin 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.
Tournon-Saint-Martin has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 3 things Tournon-Saint-Martin does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Tournon-Saint-Martin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Abbaye Notre-Dame, in Fontgombault, 3.8 mi away.
28% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Tournon-Saint-Martin is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tournon-Saint-Martin.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €8.50/m² a month, close to Indre’s towns (€8.76/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Of the homes sold, 98% were houses. Tournon-Saint-Martin recorded 45 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €904/m² | 44 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The under-15s are just over a tenth of the population here. The 15-to-24 age group: 8.7%, lower than both Indre’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (11%). Ages in Tournon-Saint-Martin split evenly at 57.2: half are older, half younger.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
| Tournon-Saint-Martin | Indre median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 38% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 31% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 21% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Indre median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Indre, women can expect to live 84 years and men 76.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Tournon-Saint-Martin come to 103 per 100 predicted. From 2016 to 2025, 343 residents of Tournon-Saint-Martin died, against 244 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 40% more. The nearest emergency department to Tournon-Saint-Martin is Ch Chateauroux Antenne du Blanc, 8 mi away.
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.
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €22,740 a year. Nearly one in ten 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. Unemployment runs at 11.2%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Tournon-Saint-Martin. Recorded offenses locally came to 16 in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 5.2 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 8.7.
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, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 65.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Tournon-Saint-Martin. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Tournon-Saint-Martin yet.
Commune in Indre, Centre-Val de Loire
Tournon-Saint-Martin is a commune of 1,112 people in the Communauté de communes Brenne - Val de Creuse. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tournon-Saint-Martin | 1,112 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Le Blanc | 6,164 | 8.4 | B− | A+ | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Tournon-Saint-Martin has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Tournon-Saint-Martin grades A+ for cost of living.
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.