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It is a town of 3,153 residents in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Where it does best is jobs & income (B+): 0.7 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment. At the median price of €2,189/m², a 70 m² home costs 6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Pays de Blain Communauté. Elsewhere it is close to typical: C+ for health and C+ for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · 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. Bouvron has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Bouvron 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.
Bouvron has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The one thing Bouvron does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Bouvron, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 2002.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Bouvron has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Quéhillac: Photo: Tanruz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bouvron.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly a tenth of the population. 18% of residents are 65 or over, below Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. The median resident of Bouvron is 40.6 years old.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Bouvron | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Bouvron, none of them classé, France’s highest protection. Protection here reaches back to the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Half of residents lived on more than €25,630 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Loire-Atlantique’s towns (€27,630). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 8.9% of commuters travelled 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.
Life expectancy in Loire-Atlantique: 86.2 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. Bouvron has 2 family doctors. Its care home for older people (86 places) counts its residents as Bouvron’s; allowing for it, deaths were 9% below expected.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,189/m², comes from 89 sales of houses and apartments in Bouvron from July 2023 to June 2026. Of the homes sold, 97% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,190/m² | 86 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Bouvron was criminal damage (2025). The 2025 count: 15 offenses here. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3.6 violent offenses and 8.3 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 47.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
One notable person was born in Bouvron.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Bouvron is a commune of 3,153 people in the Communauté de communes Pays de Blain Communauté. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouvron | 3,153 | — | — | B− | — | C+ |
| Fay-de-Bretagne | 4,023 | 3.3 | B | B | B | B |
| Malville | 3,752 | 4.7 | B | C+ | A− | C− |
| Campbon | 4,058 | 4.9 | A | B | A | B+ |
| Savenay | 9,543 | 5.2 | B− | C | C+ | C− |
| Blain | 10,376 | 5.9 | B+ | C+ | B− | B− |
| La Chapelle-Launay | 3,270 | 6.1 | — | B | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bouvron has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,189/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Bouvron 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 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.