Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town has 3,780 residents and lies in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Bénesse-Maremne’s strongest subject is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its overall grade, B, puts it better than 64% of compared French towns. It ranks #9 of 29 in Landes. Schools are a strength too (B+): brevet results a point below the expected rate. The catch is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is weaker too (C+): just over four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Bénesse-Maremne does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bénesse-Maremne 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 Bénesse-Maremne as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Saint-Martin-de-Hinx, 6.1 mi away.
3.6% 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 Bénesse-Maremne.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In Bénesse-Maremne, houses go for €4,000/m² and apartments for €3,803/m². The estimated advertised rent is €13.92/m² a month, above Landes’ towns (€13.01/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. The market locally: 171 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,000/m² | 114 |
| Apartments | €3,803/m² | 57 |
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.
206 deaths in Bénesse-Maremne between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 266: 23% below. In Landes, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.5 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. For a family doctor, residents of Bénesse-Maremne can choose among 3 GPs.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Ranked by results, schools here are #17 of 31 in Landes. The nearest general lycée is 4.3 mi away. Collège pupils travel 1.9 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Élisabeth et Robert BadinterNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 126 | 94%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Bénesse-Maremne were criminal damage than anything else (2025). 2025 saw 76 offenses recorded in the town. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.6 violent offenses and 11.3 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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 sexual violence and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 4.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Degrees are held by 37% of adults, above both Landes’ towns (28%) and compared French towns (30%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 8.2% of the town. 17% of residents are children under 15.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Bénesse-Maremne | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 30% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
For its 1,900 residents in work, Bénesse-Maremne has 1,400 jobs: 0.8 each. Unemployment stood at 9.3%, lower than both Landes’ towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 4.1% of working residents locally at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Gardens, heritage and other places to visit in and near Bénesse-Maremne. Best known first.
Nothing in Bénesse-Maremne is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Bénesse-Maremne.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bénesse-Maremne | 3,780 | — | B | D | B+ | A− |
| Capbreton | 9,184 | 3.2 | C− | D− | D | C+ |
| Soorts-Hossegor | 3,817 | 3.2 | B− | D− | D− | A− |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse | 8,014 | 3.8 | C | D | B− | C+ |
| Seignosse | 4,056 | 4.2 | C− | D− | D | B |
| Tosse | 3,556 | 4.3 | B+ | D | A+ | B |
| Labenne | 7,183 | 4.5 | C+ | D | C+ | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #8 of 29 in Landes. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 14 burglaries and 27 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 74% of compared French towns and #17 of 31 in Landes. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Bénesse-Maremne grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bénesse-Maremne is a commune of 3,780 people in the Communauté de communes Maremne Adour Côte Sud. 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.