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Over-65s are 30% of the population. In Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, this town has 1,299 residents.
Where it falls short is safety: an average of 6.7 recorded violent incidents and 25.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. A 70 m² home at the median €4,843/m² costs 12.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Maremne Adour Côte Sud. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for health and B− for walkability. It also trails on jobs & income (C+): 0.9 jobs per working resident; 17.9% unemployment.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Moliets-et-Maa 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.
The 3 things Moliets-et-Maa does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Moliets-et-Maa 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.
Moliets-et-Maa 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 Moliets-et-Maa as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Lévignacq, 14.6 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 Moliets-et-Maa.
Over 2025, Moliets-et-Maa logged 42 recorded offenses. The commonest graded crime locally was theft from vehicles (2025).
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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery and vehicle theft, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 16.6% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Moliets-et-Maa sell for €4,409/m², houses for €5,220/m². Behind the median of €4,843/m²: 275 houses and apartments sold locally between July 2023 and June 2026. Among the homes sold, 53% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €5,220/m² | 145 |
| Apartments | €4,409/m² | 130 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 12% of residents. People 65 and over make up 30% of the town, higher than both Landes’ towns (28%) and compared French towns (22%). Also worth knowing: among adults, 37% have a degree.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Moliets-et-Maa | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.8% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.9% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Moliets-et-Maa has 4 family doctors. The nearest emergency department to Moliets-et-Maa is Ch de Dax Antenne Saisonniere Smur Hossegor, 10.1 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 107 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 96, 11% fewer. Life expectancy in Landes: 85.5 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €27,030 a year. At the census, 2.6% of working residents in Moliets-et-Maa went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, family days out and museums in and near Moliets-et-Maa. Best known first.
Nothing in Moliets-et-Maa 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 Moliets-et-Maa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moliets-et-Maa | 1,299 | — | — | C− | D | B− |
| Soustons | 8,701 | 6.9 | C+ | C− | B− | B+ |
| Magescq | 2,698 | 8.8 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Seignosse | 4,056 | 11 | C− | D− | D | B |
| Tosse | 3,556 | 11 | B+ | D | A+ | B |
| Castets | 2,516 | 11 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Soorts-Hossegor | 3,817 | 13 | B− | D− | D− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €4,843/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.86/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Moliets-et-Maa grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Moliets-et-Maa is a commune of 1,299 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 November 4, 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.