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A town of 1,001 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Mimbaste has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D−): 0% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 35% 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 one thing Mimbaste does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mimbaste 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Mimbaste as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Enceinte gallo-romaine, in Dax, 6 mi away.
28% 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 Mimbaste.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 2.7% of commuters at the census. Jobs based in Mimbaste number 100, against 400 residents in work (0.2 per worker). At the census, 3.2% of working residents in Mimbaste didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 85 residents of Mimbaste died, against 131 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 35% fewer. In Landes, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Mimbaste is Centre hospitalier de Dax, 5.7 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses accounted for 89% of sales, apartments for the rest. Sales in Mimbaste from July 2023 to June 2026: 28 houses and apartments.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 24% of adults, lower than both Landes’ towns (28%) and compared French towns (30%). 26% of residents have reached 65. The 15-to-24 age group makes up one in ten residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Mimbaste | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 34% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Mimbaste is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Mimbaste.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mimbaste | 1,001 | — | — | C | — | A+ |
| Pouillon | 3,134 | 3.5 | — | C | — | C+ |
| Narrosse | 3,387 | 4.2 | B+ | C | A− | B+ |
| Dax | 22,109 | 5.9 | D | C | D− | D |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax | 14,481 | 7.5 | C | C− | C | B |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | 3,402 | 7.6 | B+ | C | A | B− |
| Pontonx-sur-l'Adour | 3,021 | 9.8 | — | C+ | — | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mimbaste has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.3 recorded violent incidents and 5.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Mimbaste is a commune of 1,001 people in the Communauté de communes Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans. 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) · 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.