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With 3,070 residents, it is a town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Walkability is its weak spot (C−): 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Residents’ health trails most towns (C+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 8% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,810/m² takes 7.2 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Chauvé 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 Chauvé 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.
Chauvé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The one thing Chauvé does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Chauvé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Chauvé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Pierre des Platennes: Photo: Didier POINTEAU · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pierre de la Croterie: Photo: Didier POINTEAU · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chauvé.
3.5% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census. Per resident in work, Chauvé counts 0.4 jobs (550 jobs, 1,450 workers). Half of residents lived on more than €25,200 a year per consumption unit, below Loire-Atlantique’s towns (€27,630) and close to compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 21%, higher than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (17%). 17% of residents are 65 or over. Residents of Chauvé have a median age of 40.8.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Chauvé | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Loire-Atlantique is 86.2 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 178 residents of Chauvé died, against 194 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Chauvé is Centre hospitalier de Saint Nazaire, 14.2 mi away. The town has one family doctor.
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 B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Chauvé; none is classé, France’s top protection. 12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,810/m², comes from 87 sales of houses and apartments in Chauvé from July 2023 to June 2026. The sales split: 99% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,842/m² | 86 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Over 2025, Chauvé logged 29 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10.2 (2023–2025 average). Of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (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 family violence, 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, 47.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Chauvé as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Chauvé is a commune of 3,070 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chauvé | 3,070 | — | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Chaumes-en-Retz | 7,440 | 3.6 | B+ | B− | A− | B |
| Saint-Père-en-Retz | 4,894 | 4.9 | B− | C | C+ | B− |
| Pornic | 18,745 | 4.9 | C | D | C+ | B− |
| La Bernerie-en-Retz | 3,536 | 5.1 | C | C− | B− | C+ |
| Frossay | 3,307 | 6.9 | — | B− | — | B− |
| Saint-Viaud | 2,929 | 7 | — | C+ | — | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Chauvé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,810/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Chauvé grades C+ 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.
