Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,086 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Messanges has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 12.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 34% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Messanges does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Messanges 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 Messanges as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
3.5% 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 Messanges.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In the comparison, Messanges comes below both Landes’ towns (88) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 77 residents of Messanges died, against 117 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 34% 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.
For Messanges, that is above both Landes’ towns (€3,172/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,876/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Messanges sits below both Landes’ towns (8.9%) and compared French towns (11%) on this measure. 13% of residents are children under 15.
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Messanges | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.8% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
That puts Messanges above both Landes’ towns (€25,750) and compared French towns (€25,970). Messanges has 400 jobs for 450 working residents, 0.9 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums, family days out and other places to visit in and near Messanges. Best known first.
Nothing in Messanges 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 Messanges 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Messanges | 1,086 | — | — | C− | — | A+ |
| Soustons | 8,701 | 4.8 | C+ | C− | B− | B+ |
| Seignosse | 4,056 | 8.1 | C− | D− | D | B |
| Magescq | 2,698 | 8.2 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Tosse | 3,556 | 8.6 | B+ | D | A+ | B |
| Soorts-Hossegor | 3,817 | 10 | B− | D− | D− | A− |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse | 8,014 | 11 | C | D | B− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Messanges has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.9 recorded violent incidents and 20.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.86/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Messanges grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Messanges is a commune of 1,086 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.