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1,147 people call this town in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire home.
Jobs & income is its strong suit (A+) — 2 jobs per working resident; 1.7% unemployment. Buying in is costly (C): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 39% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Nearly a quarter of residents are 15 to 24. It has 1,450 jobs for 700 working residents.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Boulay-les-Barres 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 Boulay-les-Barres 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.
Boulay-les-Barres has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Boulay-les-Barres does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Boulay-les-Barres as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Moulin à vent de Lignerolles, in Coinces, 5.4 mi away.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Boulay-les-Barres 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 Boulay-les-Barres.
Over-65s are 7.8% of the population. Line up the people of Boulay-les-Barres by age and the one in the middle is 28.8.
33% women, 67% men
About 49 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Boulay-les-Barres | Loiret median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 23% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 44% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 14% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 7.8% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 29% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loiret median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Loiret is 85.4 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 38 deaths in Boulay-les-Barres from 2016 to 2025; there were 29, 23% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Boulay-les-Barres is Oreliance Reine Blanche, 4.9 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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
From July 2023 to June 2026, 23 homes were sold in Boulay-les-Barres.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €27,430 a year per consumption unit. 22.0% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, above both Loiret’s towns (13.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit in and near Boulay-les-Barres. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Boulay-les-Barres yet.
Commune in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire
Boulay-les-Barres is a commune of 1,147 people in the Communauté de communes de la Beauce Loirétaine. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulay-les-Barres | 1,147 | — | — | C | — | A− |
| Ormes | 4,376 | 2.9 | A | C− | A+ | B+ |
| Ingré | 10,062 | 4.4 | B+ | C | B | A− |
| Saran | 17,316 | 5.2 | C | C | C− | C+ |
| Chevilly | 2,663 | 5.8 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle | 16,768 | 6.1 | C+ | B− | C+ | B− |
| La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin | 11,017 | 6.3 | B | C | B | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Boulay-les-Barres has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5 recorded violent incidents and 8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 8, 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.