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A town of 3,697 in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Vouillé grades A overall: better than 89% of compared French towns, and #7 of 29 in Vienne. Its weakest subject is health (C): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €1,848/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 du Haut-Poitou. Its strongest is schools (A): brevet results 4 points above the expected rate.
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 Vouillé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vouillé 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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Vouillé has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1928.
Wikidata records 2 people born in Vouillé before 1900, the earliest Céleste Bouglé, in 1854.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vouillé.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its schools’ results rank #1 of 26 in Vienne. The closest lycée for the general bac is 8 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège privé La Chaume - La Salle PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 102 | 96%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 2.2 violent offenses and 13.1 graded property crimes a year. Police and gendarmerie recorded 55 offenses in Vouillé in 2025. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Vouillé (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 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, 10.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Vouillé records 95 deaths per 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 388 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 439, 13% more. The nearest emergency department to Vouillé is Polyclinique de Poitiers, 10.7 mi away. Average lifespans in Vienne: 85.8 years for women, 79.8 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
The jobless rate is 7.3%. Vouillé has 1,100 jobs for 1,550 working residents, 0.7 per worker. No commute at all: 4.3% of working residents here at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,848/m²: 118 houses and apartments sold in Vouillé between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses made up 97% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. Renting a house costs an estimated €8.96/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,849/m² | 115 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Just over a tenth of its homes were built before 1919, close to Vienne’s towns (11%) and above compared French towns (7.4%). Vouillé has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level. Its oldest listed monument dates from prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The under-15s are 18% of the population here. Vouillé has a median age of 45.8. Nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over, close to Vienne’s towns (25%) and above compared French towns (22%).
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Vouillé | Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage in and near Vouillé. Best known first.
The list names few of Vouillé’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Vouillé.
Cédric Énard: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Céleste Bouglé: Gerardgiraud, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vouillé | 3,697 | — | A | B | A− | C |
| Cissé | 2,869 | 3.5 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Neuville-de-Poitou | 5,513 | 4.8 | A | B+ | B | B+ |
| Vouneuil-sous-Biard | 6,290 | 6.1 | A− | C+ | A− | A |
| Migné-Auxances | 6,285 | 6.6 | A− | B | B+ | B+ |
| Saint-Martin-la-Pallu | 5,713 | 7.2 | A− | A | A+ | B |
| Boivre-la-Vallée | 3,024 | 7.3 | — | A− | — | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety, #11 of 29 in Vienne. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 29 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 94% of compared French towns and #1 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 €1,848/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €10.83/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Vouillé grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Vouillé is a commune of 3,697 people in the Communauté de communes du Haut-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.