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2,838 residents make their home in this town in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
A tough set of grades. At €3,232/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 8.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Médoc Atlantique. Safety is its weak spot: an average of 15.9 recorded violent incidents and 27 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. All told, that adds up to a D− overall, better than 2% of compared French towns.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
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 Vendays-Montalivet does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vendays-Montalivet 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 Vendays-Montalivet as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Vivien, in Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc, 5.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vendays-Montalivet.
All told, Vendays-Montalivet had 128 recorded offenses in 2025. Of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (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SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 0.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Children under 15 make up 10%, lower than both Gironde’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are 6% of the population. Degrees are held by 25% of adults.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Vendays-Montalivet | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 10% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 37% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
165 sales of houses and apartments in Vendays-Montalivet, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €3,232/m². From July 2023 to June 2026, 165 homes were sold locally. The sales split: 96% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,148/m² | 158 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Gironde, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. Its care home for older people (72 places) counts its residents as Vendays-Montalivet’s; allowing for it, deaths were 5% below expected. 493 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 436: 13% above. The nearest emergency department to Vendays-Montalivet is Clinique Mutualiste du Medoc, 8.7 mi away.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €24,920 a year. For its 950 residents in work, Vendays-Montalivet has 900 jobs: 0.9 each. 9.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Gironde’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums and family days out in and near Vendays-Montalivet. Best known first.
Nothing in Vendays-Montalivet 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 Vendays-Montalivet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendays-Montalivet | 2,838 | — | D− | C | D− | C |
| Lesparre-Médoc | 5,872 | 9.1 | D | C+ | D | C− |
| Soulac-sur-Mer | 3,100 | 9.9 | D | C− | D | B |
| Hourtin | 4,045 | 12 | B− | D | A− | C |
| Meschers-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime | 3,180 | 16 | D− | D | D | C |
| Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 5,092 | 18 | D | D | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D− for safety, #93 of 100 in Gironde. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 19 burglaries and 42 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,232/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Vendays-Montalivet grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Vendays-Montalivet is a commune of 2,838 people in the Communauté de communes Médoc Atlantique. 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 November 9, 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.