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A town of 2,036 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Mées has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 10% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,833/m², a 70 m² home costs 7.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 0.7 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Mées does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mées 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 Mées as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne Cathédrale Sainte-Marie (église Notre-Dame), in Dax, 3.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Mées. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de Borda4.9 km east, in Dax
MuseumMusée de l'aviation légère de l'armée de Terre et de l'hélicoptère4.4 km southeast, in DaxMuseumMuseumMusée Georgette-Dupouy4.9 km east, in DaxAttractionAttractionLe trou des pauvres4.5 km east, in DaxArt galleryArt galleryDom-Art4.8 km east, in DaxPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mées.
For Mées, that is below both Landes’ towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). 3.7% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
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.
Mées sits below both Landes’ towns (88) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 131 residents of Mées died, against 177 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Mées below both Landes’ towns (€13.01/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €2,833/m², comes from 63 sales of houses and apartments in Mées from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,880/m² | 57 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On this, Mées is below both Landes’ towns (8.9%) and compared French towns (11%). 25% of residents are 65 or over.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Mées | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
In the comparison, Mées comes below Landes’ towns (92.6%) but above compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Léonce Dussarrat dit Léon des LandesNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 153 | 85%−5 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent de BordaNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 523 | 96%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 13 offenses in the graded categories in Mées in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 42.9% of the index here.
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
Nothing in Mées is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Mées as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mées | 2,036 | — | — | C | — | A |
| Dax | 22,109 | 3.1 | D | C | D− | D |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax | 14,481 | 3.1 | C | C− | C | B |
| Narrosse | 3,387 | 5.1 | B+ | C | A− | B+ |
| Saint-Geours-de-Maremne | 3,089 | 6 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | 3,402 | 6.7 | B+ | C | A | B− |
| Magescq | 2,698 | 7.1 | B− | C | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mées has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.4 recorded violent incidents and 6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C+, better than 44% of compared French towns. 96% of 523 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent de Borda 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.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,833/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mées grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Mées is a commune of 2,036 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax. 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.