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A town of 2,533 in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Rouillé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 8.0% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Rouillé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Rouillé 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.
Rouillé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Rouillé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1935.
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Rouillé.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Rouillé below both Vienne’s towns (€1,790/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). A home here costs 3 years of the median income in Communauté urbaine du Grand Poitiers.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,098/m² | 75 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On this, Rouillé is below both Vienne’s towns (€26,210) and compared French towns (€25,970). 6.7% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
In the comparison, Rouillé comes above both Vienne’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Rouillé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
One GP practises in Rouillé. 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−.
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
For Rouillé, that is below both Vienne’s towns (32%) and compared French towns (30%). Children under 15 make up 19% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Rouillé | Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 15 offenses in the graded categories in Rouillé in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 35.3% of the index 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
The list names few of Rouillé’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Temple protestant: Photo: Rentlau · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Rouillé as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rouillé | 2,533 | — | — | A+ | — | B |
| Lusignan | 2,544 | 4.2 | A | A | B | B− |
| Boivre-la-Vallée | 3,024 | 9.4 | — | A− | — | A+ |
| Vivonne | 4,550 | 11 | B | A | D | A |
| Valence-en-Poitou | 4,325 | 11 | A− | A | B+ | B− |
| Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 7,595 | 12 | B+ | A− | D | B− |
| Fontaine-le-Comte | 3,972 | 13 | A− | B− | B+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Rouillé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.3 recorded violent incidents and 8.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 8 acts of criminal damage.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €8.97/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Rouillé grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Rouillé is a commune of 2,533 people in the Communauté urbaine du Grand Poitiers. 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 October 30, 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.