Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 5,319 residents, it is a town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Few extremes here. Homes are dear: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Le Pellerin grades C+ overall and ranks #74 of 93 in Loire-Atlantique. That leaves it better than just over two fifths of compared French towns. Its best grade is for walkability — 64% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 11% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for safety, B− for schools, B− for health and C+ for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · 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.
Each subject compares Le Pellerin 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 one thing Le Pellerin does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Le Pellerin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle de Bethléem, in Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, 1.6 mi away.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Le Pellerin is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Pellerin.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,698/m², comes from 166 sales of houses and apartments in Le Pellerin from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses made up 88% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,653/m² | 146 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
18% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Half of Le Pellerin is older than 40, half younger. Among adults, 32% have a degree.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Le Pellerin | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stands at 8.5%. At the census, 6.7% of working residents in Le Pellerin went to work by public transport. The median disposable income was €26,610 a year per consumption unit, about level with both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (€27,630) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Results rank its schools #62 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Pierre et Marie CurieNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 125 | 90%−2 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jean-Jacques AudubonNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 66 | 86%±0 pts |
| Collège Sainte-Philomène PrivateBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 154 | 99%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 6 violent offenses and 15.7 graded property crimes a year. Le Pellerin’s tally for 2025: 90 recorded offenses. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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 · When other physical violence and armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (2.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Loire-Atlantique, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.2 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. The nearest emergency department to Le Pellerin is Chu de Nantes site Hotel Dieu Hopital Mere Enfant, 9.9 mi away. Also worth knowing: 450 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 415: 8% above. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Le Pellerin’s; allowing for it, deaths were 11% 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Heritage in and near Le Pellerin. Best known first.
Manor houseLa Gerbetière2.1 km northeast, in CouëronChâteauChâteauChâteau de Briord4.4 km south, in Port-Saint-PèreChâteauChâteauChâteau de Bougon3.5 km northeast, in CouëronChâteauChâteauChâteau du Bois corbeau2.7 km southwest, in Cheix-en-RetzChâteauChâteauChâteau du Pé3.3 km east, in Saint-Jean-de-BoiseauPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
One notable person was born in Le Pellerin.
Joseph Fouché: Claude-Marie Dubufe / After René Théodore Berthon, Public domain
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Le Pellerin is a commune of 5,319 people in the Nantes Métropole. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Pellerin | 5,319 | — | C+ | C | B− | B− |
| Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau | 6,067 | 2.4 | B | C | A− | B− |
| Brains | 2,709 | 2.7 | — | C | — | A− |
| Couëron | 24,103 | 2.8 | B | C | B− | B |
| La Montagne | 6,505 | 3.8 | B+ | C | C+ | B+ |
| Rouans | 3,301 | 4.1 | B | C | A− | B |
| Port-Saint-Père | 3,059 | 4.5 | B | C− | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #51 of 93 in Loire-Atlantique. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 41 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 55% of compared French towns and #62 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,698/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Le Pellerin 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.
