Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town has 6,585 residents and lies in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
With a B+ overall, Héric is better than just over two thirds of compared French towns. The ranking puts it #40 of 93 in Loire-Atlantique. Its strongest is jobs & income — 0.6 jobs per working resident; 6.9% unemployment. It is a safe place by the numbers (B+): an average of 2.3 recorded violent incidents and 15.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. At €2,580/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 6.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes d'Erdre et Gesvres. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (C): just over two in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for schools and B− for health.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Héric does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Héric 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 Héric as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château du Plessis, in Casson, 4.7 mi away.
12% 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 Héric.
The 15-to-24 age group: 11%, above Loire-Atlantique’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Those 65 and older account for 15% of residents. Half of Héric is older than 38.4, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Héric | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stood at 6.9%, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (7.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Households’ median disposable income: €27,820 a year per consumption unit. No commute at all: 4.3% of working residents in Héric at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Héric’s tally for 2025: 88 recorded offenses. The graded crime recorded most here was criminal damage (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 · Small counts of other physical violence and sexual violence go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 6.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
151 sales of houses and apartments in Héric, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,580/m². Advertised rents are estimated at €11.61/m² a month, below Loire-Atlantique’s towns (€12.75/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. Renting a house costs an estimated €10.53/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,564/m² | 146 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Héric is Chu de Nantes site Hotel Dieu Hopital Mere Enfant, 14.9 mi away. Its care home for older people (84 places) counts its residents as Héric’s; allowing for it, deaths were 11% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 445 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 482, 8% more. Average lifespans in Loire-Atlantique: 86.2 years for women, 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its schools’ results rank #70 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique. Collège pupils travel 0.7 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marcelle BaronNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 150 | 89%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Héric. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Beaulieuin town
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Nothing in Héric is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Héric.
René Martin: Ville de La Flèche, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Héric | 6,585 | — | B+ | B | B+ | B− |
| Grandchamp-des-Fontaines | 7,062 | 4.3 | A+ | C+ | A | A− |
| Casson | 2,605 | 4.8 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Saffré | 4,115 | 5.8 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Blain | 10,376 | 6.6 | B+ | C+ | B− | B− |
| Treillières | 10,600 | 6.8 | A | C | A− | A− |
| Fay-de-Bretagne | 4,023 | 6.8 | B | B | B | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #36 of 93 in Loire-Atlantique. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 29 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 48% of compared French towns and #70 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,580/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Héric grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Héric is a commune of 6,585 people in the Communauté de communes d'Erdre et Gesvres. 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.
