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With 1,569 residents, it is a town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Jobs and pay hold up well (B): 0.2 jobs per working resident; 3.7% unemployment. Most journeys need a car: just over three quarters of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €2,358/m² costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Pays de Blain Communauté. Over-65s are only 9% of the population.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. La Chevallerais 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 2 things La Chevallerais does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Chevallerais 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.
La Chevallerais 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 La Chevallerais as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de la Groulais, in Blain, 4.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Chevallerais.
Among adults, 40% have a degree. People 65 and over make up 9% of the town, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Half of La Chevallerais is older than 36.7, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| La Chevallerais | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 25% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 9% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.3% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 40% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
4.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (10.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). At the census, 3.4% of working residents in La Chevallerais didn’t travel to work at all. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €26,740 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,358/m², comes from 41 sales of houses and apartments in La Chevallerais from July 2023 to June 2026. From July 2023 to June 2026, 41 homes were sold locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,358/m² | 41 |
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.
Adjusted for age and care homes, La Chevallerais records 91 deaths per 100 expected, about level with compared French towns (88) and above Loire-Atlantique’s towns (85). 55 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 60: 9% below. Life expectancy in Loire-Atlantique: 86.2 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A.
Other places to visit and heritage in and near La Chevallerais. Best known first.
Nothing in La Chevallerais 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 La Chevallerais 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Chevallerais | 1,569 | — | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Héric | 6,585 | 3.7 | B+ | B | B+ | B− |
| Saffré | 4,115 | 4 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Blain | 10,376 | 4.5 | B+ | C+ | B− | B− |
| Nozay | 4,292 | 7.2 | B+ | B− | B | C− |
| Fay-de-Bretagne | 4,023 | 7.5 | B | B | B | B |
| Casson | 2,605 | 7.7 | — | C+ | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Chevallerais has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7.2 recorded violent incidents and 12.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,358/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so La Chevallerais grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
La Chevallerais is a commune of 1,569 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
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 9, 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.