Vieux-Tours, Prébendes, Velpeau, Sanitas or Les Deux Lions: which Tours neighbourhood suits you, what rents to expect and how to prepare your search.
The best neighbourhoods to rent in Tours depend on how you want to live. Vieux-Tours, around Place Plumereau, suits those who want to do everything on foot and do not mind noise in the evening. Prébendes is the calm, leafy choice for families. Velpeau and La Fuye offer a village feel close to the centre, Sanitas and Febvotte-Marat keep rents more accessible, and Les Deux Lions, by the Cher, attracts students and young professionals looking for newer buildings.
Tours is a city of tenants. INSEE counted 139,259 residents in 2023, and 66.3% of households rent their home. The city is also the leading student centre in the Centre-Val de Loire region, with more than 30,000 students according to LocService.fr, so competition for studios peaks between June and September. This guide reviews each area, the rents to expect and what to prepare before you sign.
Half-timbered houses, pedestrian streets, the Halles market and the cathedral nearby: the old town is the most sought-after part of Tours for its character and walkability. The rental stock is mostly studios and small flats in old buildings, popular with young professionals and newcomers from abroad.
Pros: everything within walking distance, lively streets, the Loire at the end of the road. Cons: noisy evenings around the bars, rents at the top of the local range, older flats that can be poorly insulated.
Built around the Prébendes garden, this residential area has handsome period buildings and tree-lined streets. Families and professionals look here for bright three and four-room flats, which let quickly when they come up. The centre is within walking or cycling distance.
Pros: quiet streets, green space, generous room sizes. Cons: limited supply and higher rents for larger flats.
Velpeau is known for its local markets and shops. Together with neighbouring La Fuye, it combines a central location with a neighbourhood feel, and demand from students and health workers is strong.
Close to the city centre and well served by the tram, Sanitas offers a wide range of flats at more accessible rents than the historic core. It suits students and young workers on a tighter budget.
Between the city centre and Les Deux Lions, this calmer residential sector mixes studios and two-room flats, often at slightly lower rents than the old town.
A more recent district on the banks of the Cher, Les Deux Lions has contemporary flats, offices and shops, and is linked to the centre by tram. Students and young professionals like its newer buildings; the atmosphere is more practical than picturesque.
The average rents shown on the Tours page of this site, drawn from LocService.fr's 2025 study and including service charges, are about 449 euros a month for a studio, 482 euros for a one-room flat, 647 euros for a two-room flat and 771 euros for three rooms. More recent figures for student studios are close: LocService.fr measured an average of 469 euros including charges in June 2026.
The good news for tenants is that competition is easing. LocService.fr's tension score for Tours, the ratio of seekers to flats offered on its platform over twelve months, fell from 3.51 to 3.00 in a year, even as the city's share of regional student searches rose to 44%. Two-thirds of students in the region look for a studio or a one-room flat, and half want a furnished let.
The Syndicat des mobilités de Touraine is building a second tram line. According to the project's website, it will be 12.5 km long with 22 stations and a tram every 7 minutes at peak times, and will serve the Bretonneau and Trousseau hospitals and the Grandmont university site. If you are signing a lease for several years, find out where the line runs: streets under construction are noisy today but will be better connected tomorrow.
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