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2,171 people live in this town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
The weak point is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is weaker too: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Second homes make up 62% of its housing. It skews older: 38% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Mesquer 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 3 things Mesquer does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mesquer 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.
Mesquer 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 Mesquer as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Moulin de Crémeur, in Guérande, 4.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mesquer.
People 65 and over make up 38% of the town, above both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). 5.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Half the people of Mesquer are older than 59.8.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Mesquer | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 5.6% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 14% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 38% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 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.
Sales in Mesquer from July 2023 to June 2026: 160 houses and apartments. Houses made up 89% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. House rents are put at about €10.58/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,975/m² | 143 |
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 Mesquer is Centre hospitalier de Saint Nazaire, 13.6 mi away. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Mesquer come to 97 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 275 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 266, 3% fewer. 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €28,570 a year. 6.8% of Mesquer’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Mesquer’s tally for 2025: 47 recorded offenses. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 5.2 violent offenses and 25 graded property crimes a year. The graded crime recorded most locally was burglary (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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 26.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and gardens in and near Mesquer. Best known first.
Nothing in Mesquer is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Mesquer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesquer | 2,171 | — | — | C− | — | C |
| Saint-Molf | 2,870 | 2.4 | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Piriac-sur-Mer | 2,685 | 3.3 | D | C− | C− | C |
| La Turballe | 4,850 | 3.7 | D | C− | C | D |
| Guérande | 16,804 | 5.4 | B+ | C− | C+ | A− |
| Saint-Lyphard | 5,304 | 6.6 | B | C | A | C |
| Le Croisic | 4,056 | 7.8 | B− | C− | B− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mesquer has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 28 burglaries and 19 acts of criminal damage.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.98/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mesquer grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Mesquer is a commune of 2,171 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de la Presqu'île de Guérande Atlantique (Cap Atlantique). 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 October 30, 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.