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Home to 1,618 people, this town lies in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Where it falls short is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 1% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,336/m², so 70 m² costs 6.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Mont de Marsan Agglomération.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Bretagne-de-Marsan has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Bretagne-de-Marsan 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.
Bretagne-de-Marsan has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bretagne-de-Marsan as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Pierre, in Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, 4 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Bretagne-de-Marsan is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bretagne-de-Marsan.
The median disposable income was €27,600 a year per consumption unit, above both Landes’ towns (€25,750) and compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 3.1% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 221 deaths in Bretagne-de-Marsan from 2016 to 2025; there were 423, 92% more. 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. The nearest emergency department to Bretagne-de-Marsan is Chi de Mont de Marsan et du Pays des Sources, 3.7 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Bretagne-de-Marsan, 98.0% passed the bac, higher than both Landes’ towns (94.2%) and compared French towns (92.9%). For collège, the closest is 2.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Cel le GaucherNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 131 | 79%−9 pts |
| Lycée privé Jean Cassaigne PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 97 | 98%−1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel privé Jean Cassaigne PrivateBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 42 | 98%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 33% of adults, higher than both Landes’ towns (28%) and compared French towns (30%). The under-15s are 19% of the population here. Ages in Bretagne-de-Marsan split evenly at 44.7: half are older, half younger.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Bretagne-de-Marsan | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,336/m²: 40 houses and apartments sold in Bretagne-de-Marsan between July 2023 and June 2026. Renting a house costs an estimated €8.65/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 40 homes were sold locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,336/m² | 40 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Of the graded crimes in Bretagne-de-Marsan, armed robbery came up most often (2025). Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 3 cases of violence against people and 3.1 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (100.0% of the index here).
Gardens, heritage and museums in and near Bretagne-de-Marsan. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bretagne-de-Marsan yet.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bretagne-de-Marsan is a commune of 1,618 people in the Mont de Marsan Agglomération. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bretagne-de-Marsan | 1,618 | — | — | B− | — | D− |
| Saint-Pierre-du-Mont | 10,092 | 3.4 | B+ | C+ | B | B+ |
| Mont-de-Marsan | 31,592 | 3.6 | C+ | B− | D | B− |
| Saint-Sever | 5,043 | 8.1 | A | B+ | A | C− |
| Villeneuve-de-Marsan | 2,508 | 8.4 | — | B− | — | B |
| Aire-sur-l'Adour | 6,211 | 14 | B+ | B+ | B− | C− |
| Hagetmau | 4,624 | 15 | A | B+ | A | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bretagne-de-Marsan has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C+, better than 40% of compared French towns. 98% of 97 candidates passed the bac at Lycée privé Jean Cassaigne in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,336/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bretagne-de-Marsan grades B− for cost of living.
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.