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A town of 2,941 in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Smarves grades A overall: better than 93% of compared French towns, and #3 of 29 in Vienne. Its weakest subject is schools (C−): brevet results 6 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €1,922/m², a 70 m² home costs 5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes des Vallées du Clain. Its strongest is safety (A): an average of 2 recorded violent incidents and 11.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Smarves does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Smarves 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Smarves as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin, in Ligugé, 1 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, family days out and museums in and near Smarves. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Smarves.
Police and gendarmerie recorded 32 offenses in the graded categories in Smarves in 2025. Of the graded crimes in Smarves, burglary came up most often (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, 22.4% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Smarves below both Vienne’s towns (€10.33/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,922/m², comes from 76 sales of houses and apartments in Smarves from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,926/m² | 75 |
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.
Schools rank #22 of 26 in Vienne.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Théophraste RenaudotNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 176 | 87%−6 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.
On this, Smarves is below both Vienne’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 280 residents of Smarves died, against 298 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 6% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
In the comparison, Smarves comes below both Vienne’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up 27% of the town.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Smarves | Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 35% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
For Smarves, that is above both Vienne’s towns (€26,210) and compared French towns (€25,970). Smarves has 550 jobs for 1,200 working residents, 0.5 per worker. 6.8% of the labour force are out of work.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Smarves 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 Smarves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smarves | 2,941 | — | A | A− | A | A− |
| Ligugé | 3,444 | 1.7 | A− | B− | A− | B+ |
| Iteuil | 2,989 | 2.7 | A+ | B+ | A− | B+ |
| Saint-Benoît | 7,375 | 3 | B+ | C+ | C+ | A− |
| Nouaillé-Maupertuis | 2,975 | 3.1 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Mignaloux-Beauvoir | 5,229 | 3.6 | A− | C+ | A | B+ |
| Fontaine-le-Comte | 3,972 | 4.5 | A− | B− | B+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #5 of 29 in Vienne. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 21 burglaries and 11 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 18% of compared French towns and #22 of 26 in Vienne. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,922/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Smarves grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Smarves is a commune of 2,941 people in the Communauté de communes des Vallées du Clain. 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.