Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 4,724 residents, it is a town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 30% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. A 70 m² home at the median €2,314/m² costs 6.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Ancenis. Its weakest is walkability: 35% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Mésanger 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.
The one thing Mésanger does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mésanger 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.
Mésanger has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Mésanger; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1965.
René Palierne de La Haudussais, born in 1765, is the one person born in Mésanger before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mésanger.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 4 general practitioners in Mésanger. 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. From 2016 to 2025, 181 residents of Mésanger died, against 260 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 30% fewer.
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.
On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 6.4% of commuters travelled at the census. Mésanger has 1,050 jobs for 2,300 working residents, 0.5 per worker. Also worth knowing: the median disposable income was €26,450 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
Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over one in ten residents, above both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Under 15: 20% of residents. People 65 and over make up 18% of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Mésanger | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
92 sales of houses and apartments in Mésanger, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,314/m². Houses were 99% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,314/m² | 91 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 18th century. Nearly a tenth of its homes were built before 1919, near Loire-Atlantique’s towns (8.5%) and higher than compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Graded property crimes ran at 6.3 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 2.8 (2023–2025 average). For 2025, the figures show 25 offenses in Mésanger. 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 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, 44.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Mésanger. Best known first.
Mésanger has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Moulin de la Quétraie: Photo: Naonediz44 · CC BY 3.0
2 notable people were born in Mésanger.
Serge Bardy: LeCardinal, CC BY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mésanger | 4,724 | — | — | B | — | A |
| Ancenis-Saint-Géréon | 11,600 | 4 | B | C+ | D | B+ |
| Couffé | 2,535 | 4.2 | — | B | — | A |
| Vair-sur-Loire | 4,944 | 5.8 | — | B | — | A |
| Oudon | 3,904 | 5.8 | A− | C− | A− | B− |
| Ligné | 5,693 | 7.6 | — | C | — | C |
| Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 17,162 | 7.7 | A | B− | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mésanger 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 €2,314/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mésanger grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Mésanger is a commune of 4,724 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Ancenis. 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.