Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, home to 1,256 people.
Savigné’s best grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 1% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car: just over a fifth of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 1 job per working resident; 10.2% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Savigné 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 3 things Savigné does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Savigné 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.
Savigné has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Savigné as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Nicolas, in Civray, 1.7 mi away.
25% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Savigné.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €8.39/m² a month, below Vienne’s towns (€10.33/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. 60 houses and apartments changed hands in Savigné from July 2023 to June 2026. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €6.17/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €886/m² | 60 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
A third of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Vienne’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 8.6%. Half of Savigné is older than 56.7, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Savigné | Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
162 deaths in Savigné between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 160: 1% above. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 101 per 100 expected, above both Vienne’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Savigné is Centre hospitalier de Ruffec, 11.3 mi away. At birth, a girl in Vienne can expect 85.8 years and a boy 79.8 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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.
6.4% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census. For its 450 residents in work, Savigné has 500 jobs: 1 each. Unemployment stood at 10.2%, about level with compared French towns (10.1%) and above Vienne’s towns (8.0%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest collège is 1.8 mi off. At the general lycée, 96% of 122 candidates passed the bac, a point below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé Jeanne d'Arc PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 44 | 98%+7 pts |
| Lycée André TheurietNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 122 | 96%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Savigné show 19 offenses in 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 8 violent offenses and 9.7 graded property crimes a year. The commonest graded crime locally was criminal damage (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, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 37.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Savigné is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Savigné 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savigné | 1,256 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Civray | 2,522 | 1.9 | A | A+ | B+ | A− |
| Ruffec Charente | 3,449 | 11 | B+ | A− | D− | B |
| Valence-en-Poitou | 4,325 | 12 | A− | A | B+ | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Savigné has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 52% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Savigné grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Savigné is a commune of 1,256 people in the Communauté de communes du Civraisien en Poitou. 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.