Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 3,388 people, lies in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Montbert’s strongest subject is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 31% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Add jobs & income to its strengths (A−): 0.5 jobs per working resident; 3.9% unemployment. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,504/m² takes 6.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Grand Lieu Communauté. The weak point is walkability — 56% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Montbert 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 Montbert does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Montbert 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.
Montbert has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Montbert as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhirs (deux), in Pont-Saint-Martin, 6.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montbert.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Montbert has one family doctor. Life expectancy in Loire-Atlantique: 86.2 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. 153 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 221: 31% below. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Montbert is L Hopital Prive du Confluent, 9.7 mi away.
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.
16% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Ages in Montbert split evenly at 40.1: half are older, half younger. Degrees are held by a third of adults.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Montbert | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
At the census, 6.5% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (10.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Median disposable income comes to €26,650 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.
94 sales of houses and apartments in Montbert, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,504/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,504/m² | 94 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Montbert were criminal damage than anything else (2025). Recorded offenses in the town came to 32 in 2025. Violence against people averaged 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 10.
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 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, 29.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Montbert 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 Montbert 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montbert | 3,388 | — | — | B− | — | A |
| Geneston | 3,685 | 1.7 | — | B− | — | A |
| Le Bignon | 3,976 | 2.5 | A− | C | B | A |
| Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine | 4,156 | 3.6 | A | C+ | A− | B+ |
| La Planche | 2,810 | 3.7 | — | B− | — | B− |
| Château-Thébaud | 3,129 | 4.3 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Saint-Colomban | 3,500 | 5.2 | — | C+ | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montbert has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 15 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,504/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Montbert grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Montbert is a commune of 3,388 people in the Communauté de communes Grand Lieu 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 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.