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With 2,120 residents, it is a town in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Housing is within reach (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is walkability — 44% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Incomes are on the low side: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 6.8% unemployment.
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. Pouilly-les-Nonains 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 Pouilly-les-Nonains does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Pouilly-les-Nonains 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.
Pouilly-les-Nonains has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Pouilly-les-Nonains has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1927.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Pouilly-les-Nonains.
4.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Loire’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Of those in the labour force, 6.8% are unemployed. The median disposable income is €26,760 a year per consumption unit.
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 median price, €2,061/m², comes from 54 sales of houses and apartments in Pouilly-les-Nonains from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,061/m² | 54 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest collège is 2.7 mi off. General-bac pupils go 4.2 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège de la Côte RoannaiseNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 113 | 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.
From 2016 to 2025, 147 residents of Pouilly-les-Nonains died, against 178 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% fewer. At birth, a girl in Loire can expect 85.6 years and a boy 80.8 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. Weighed against its ages and care homes, Pouilly-les-Nonains records 83 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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Pouilly-les-Nonains is Château de Boisy, dit Château de Jacques Coeur. Its heritage reaches back to the 13th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Children under 15 make up 19% of residents. Typical age in Pouilly-les-Nonains: 45.7, the median. People 65 and over make up a quarter of the town, near Loire’s towns (25%) and higher than compared French towns (22%).
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Pouilly-les-Nonains | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Pouilly-les-Nonains was burglary (2025). Its tally for 2025: 7 recorded offenses. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 2.7 violent offenses and 3.7 graded property crimes a year.
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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and criminal damage, 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, 83.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Pouilly-les-Nonains. Best known first.
The list names few of Pouilly-les-Nonains’ 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Boisy, dit Château de Jacques Coeur: Photo: Gustave Le Gray · Public domain
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Pouilly-les-Nonains yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouilly-les-Nonains | 2,120 | — | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Renaison | 3,231 | 2.6 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Riorges | 11,139 | 2.9 | A− | B+ | B− | B+ |
| Villerest | 5,172 | 4 | A+ | B+ | A | A |
| Roanne | 35,409 | 4.2 | B+ | A | D | B+ |
| Mably | 7,233 | 4.4 | B+ | A− | C+ | B− |
| Commelle-Vernay | 3,050 | 4.9 | A+ | A− | A+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Pouilly-les-Nonains has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B+, better than 69% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,061/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Pouilly-les-Nonains grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Pouilly-les-Nonains is a commune of 2,120 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais Agglomération. 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.