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The town has 7,766 residents and lies in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire.
Plenty to like here, at a price. Its strongest is safety — an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 6.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Saint-Denis-en-Val’s overall B+ puts it #21 of 43 in Loiret. Nationally, it does better than 66% of compared French towns. The drawback is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It also trails on schools (C): bac results 2.1 points below the expected rate; brevet results a point below the expected rate. Its other grades sit near the middle: B for health, B for jobs & income and B− for walkability.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Saint-Denis-en-Val does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Denis-en-Val 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.
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Saint-Denis-en-Val has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 2023.
Other places to visit, heritage and gardens in and near Saint-Denis-en-Val. Best known first.
AttractionPont George-V4.6 km northwest, in Orléans
AttractionMusée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans4.6 km northwest, in Orléans
GardenParc Floral de la Source4 km southwest, in Orléans
ChurchÉglise Notre-Dame-de-Recouvrance d'Orléans5 km northwest, in Orléans
AttractionMusée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais4.8 km northwest, in OrléansPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Denis-en-Val.
The police record for Saint-Denis-en-Val lists 82 offenses in 2025. The town comes 2nd of the 43 compared towns in Loiret on the Safety Grade. Also worth knowing: the commonest graded crime locally was family violence (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, armed robbery and vehicle theft, 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, 7.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median sale price was €2,504/m², about level with compared French towns (€2,430/m²) and above Loiret’s towns (€1,877/m²). Houses made up 94% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. Saint-Denis-en-Val recorded 196 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,497/m² | 185 |
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.
Ranked by results, schools here are #27 of 48 in Loiret. The town’s pupils have a collège 0.9 mi away. Near Saint-Denis-en-Val, 92.4% of lycée candidates passed the bac, about level with both Loiret’s towns (91.9%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Val de LoireNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 125 | 94%+1 pt |
| Lycée Jacques MonodNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 460 | 93%−4 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Paul Bourdon Blanc PrivateBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 102 | 100%+4 pts |
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.
Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Saint-Denis-en-Val’s; allowing for it, deaths were 16% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 736 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 688, 7% fewer. 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. The town has 4 family doctors.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Saint-Denis-en-Val is Ruines du château de l'Isle. Protection here reaches back to the 16th century. 5.1% of its homes were built before 1919, below both Loiret’s towns (8.5%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The unemployment rate comes to 8.3%. Jobs based in Saint-Denis-en-Val number 1,300, against 3,200 residents in work (0.4 per worker). At the census, 3.1% of working residents in Saint-Denis-en-Val didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 18%, about level with Loiret’s towns (18%) and above compared French towns (17%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for one in ten residents. Saint-Denis-en-Val has a median age of 47.3 years.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Denis-en-Val | Loiret median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loiret median and France median: the median of compared communes
Saint-Denis-en-Val has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ruines du château de l'Isle: Photo: Bourdon Blanc · CC BY-SA 3.0
2 notable people were born in Saint-Denis-en-Val.
Edgard Derouet: Croquant, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Denis-en-Val | 7,766 | — | B+ | C− | A+ | B |
| Saint-Jean-le-Blanc | 9,562 | 1.7 | A− | C− | A− | A |
| Saint-Jean-de-Braye | 23,147 | 2.2 | C+ | C | B− | B− |
| Orléans | 116,357 | 2.6 | C | C− | C | B+ |
| Olivet | 23,507 | 3.1 | A | C− | A− | A |
| Chécy | 9,083 | 3.2 | B | C | B+ | A− |
| Saint-Cyr-en-Val | 3,467 | 3.3 | A | C | A | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #2 of 43 in Loiret. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 18 burglaries and 18 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 34% of compared French towns and #27 of 48 in Loiret. 93% of 460 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Jacques Monod in 2025, 4 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Denis-en-Val grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire
Saint-Denis-en-Val is a commune of 7,766 people in the Orléans Métropole. 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.