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1,093 residents make their home in this town in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is walkability — 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for health and B for jobs & income. Holiday and other second homes account for 17% of homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). La Ferté-Saint-Cyr 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 La Ferté-Saint-Cyr does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Ferté-Saint-Cyr 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.
La Ferté-Saint-Cyr has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine de Chambord, in Chambord, 6.3 mi away.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr.
Households’ median disposable income: €27,160 a year per consumption unit. La Ferté-Saint-Cyr holds 150 jobs; 500 of its residents are in work, so 0.3 jobs each. 3.2% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Loir-et-Cher’s towns (10.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
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.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.39/m² a month, about level with Loir-et-Cher’s towns (€10.23/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Estimated advertised rent for houses: €7.96/m² a month. Also worth knowing: between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 53 homes in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,792/m² | 53 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 18%, above Loir-et-Cher’s towns (15%) and close to compared French towns (17%). Just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over. Half the people of La Ferté-Saint-Cyr are older than 46.7.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loir-et-Cher 52.4%, France 51.8%.
| La Ferté-Saint-Cyr | Loir-et-Cher median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loir-et-Cher median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Loir-et-Cher: 85.2 years for women, 80.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. France’s death rates at each age would predict 108 deaths in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr from 2016 to 2025; there were 96, 11% fewer. Weighed against its ages and care homes, La Ferté-Saint-Cyr records 89 deaths per 100 expected.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A−.
More of the graded crimes in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr were family violence than anything else (2025). Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 7.1 cases of violence against people and 7.8 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). The 2025 count: 14 offenses here.
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 · When other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (71.4% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Ferté-Saint-Cyr | 1,093 | — | — | A− | — | B− |
| Saint-Laurent-Nouan | 4,236 | 5 | A− | A− | C+ | C+ |
| Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 3,101 | 7.3 | A− | A− | A | C |
| Mer | 6,250 | 8.3 | C− | A− | D | C+ |
| Beaugency Loiret | 8,024 | 8.9 | A− | B+ | B− | A− |
| Meung-sur-Loire Loiret | 6,670 | 12 | A | B | B− | B− |
| Mont-près-Chambord | 3,386 | 12 | A+ | A− | A | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Ferté-Saint-Cyr has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so La Ferté-Saint-Cyr grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
La Ferté-Saint-Cyr is a commune of 1,093 people in the Communauté de communes du Grand Chambord. 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 9, 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.