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Suilly-la-TourNièvre

A town in Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, home to 569 people.

Is Suilly-la-Tour a good place to live?

There are no grades for Suilly-la-Tour: French towns need 1,000 residents for them. A quarter of its homes are second homes. The median sale price is €1,060/m². People aged 65 and over make up 34% of residents.

What makes Suilly-la-Tour stand out

The 3 things Suilly-la-Tour does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Château des Granges
Château des Granges · Classé · Photo: Thesupermat · CC BY-SA 3.0
Suilly-la-Tour’s story

Suilly-la-Tour in pictures

The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Suilly-la-Tour: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).

The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1914.

58% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1974First protected: Château des Granges
  • 2008Most recently protected: Anciennes forges de Chailloy
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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Suilly-la-Tour.

Who lives here

Few people in Suilly-la-Tour are 15 to 24: 5%, fewer than in Nièvre’s towns and compared French towns

People 65 and over make up just over a third of the town, above both Nièvre’s towns (32%) and compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Suilly-la-Tour by age and the one in the middle is 53.8.

53.8median age
Suilly-la-TourNièvre medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma22%
CAP or BEP29%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education24%

Women and men · all residents

52% women, 48% men

About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nièvre 53.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.

Ages and diplomas in Suilly-la-Tour
Suilly-la-TourNièvre medianFrance median
Under 1515%14%17%
15–245%8.7%11%
25–4420%19%23%
45–6426%26%26%
65+34%32%22%
No diploma22%28%19%
CAP or BEP29%31%26%
Baccalauréat20%17%18%
Higher education24%19%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Nièvre median and France median: the median of compared communes

History

Suilly-la-Tour keeps more of its old housing than Nièvre’s towns or compared French towns: 58% built before 1919

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Suilly-la-Tour: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level). Among the classé monuments here is Château des Granges. The protected list starts in the 16th century.

3historic monuments

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé2
Inscrit1

Among them · Classé

16th c.
oldest protected part
1914
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Work & commute

Only 7.4% of commuters in Suilly-la-Tour go to work without a car, fewer than in Nièvre’s towns and compared French towns

Jobs located in Suilly-la-Tour: 100, for 200 residents in work (0.4 each). Unemployment runs at 10.8%. The median disposable income was €24,430 a year per consumption unit, between Nièvre’s towns (€23,120) and compared French towns (€25,970).

7%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving81%
On foot4%
Public transport2%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter0%
100
jobs based in Suilly-la-Tour, 0.4 per working resident
10.8%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,430
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
11%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Renting in Suilly-la-Tour costs less than in Nièvre’s towns or compared French towns, at an estimated advertised €7.30/m² a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Sales in Suilly-la-Tour from July 2023 to June 2026: 44 houses and apartments. House rents are put at about €6.92/m² a month.

€1,060/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Suilly-la-Tour€1,060/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Nièvre median€1,116/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€1,060/m²44
€7.30/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€5.87 to €9.09/m² a month)
€6.92/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Château des Granges and 2 more in and around Suilly-la-Tour

Heritage in and near Suilly-la-Tour. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
Keep exploring

Everything we know about Suilly-la-Tour

13pages on Suilly-la-Tour

Landmarks

The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Suilly-la-Tour: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).

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Photo credits

Château des Granges: Photo: Thesupermat · CC BY-SA 3.0

Famous people from Suilly-la-Tour

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Suilly-la-Tour yet.

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Suilly-la-Tour’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Nièvre →
Cosne-Cours-sur-LoireLa Charité-sur-LoireGuérignyCosne-Cours-sur-LoireLa Charité-sur-LoireGuérignySuilly-la-Tour
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Suilly-la-Tour569—————
Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire9,7338.1BADC+
La Charité-sur-Loire4,70511B+ACC+
Guérigny2,50518—A—B−

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Suilly-la-Tour

Commune in Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Suilly-la-Tour is a commune of 569 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur de Loire. 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

Population
569 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Cœur de Loire
Département
Nièvre (58)
Région
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Area
14.3 sq mi (37.1 km²)
INSEE code
58281

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.