Vallet’s best grade is for schools: brevet results 1.6 points above the expected rate. Homes sell for a median €2,570/m²: 70 m² comes to 6.6 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Sèvre et Loire. What holds it back is walkability (C) — 37% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Overall, that makes an A, good for #17 of 93 in Loire-Atlantique. That leaves it better than 88% of compared French towns.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
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 Vallet 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.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Crime per resident in Vallet runs lower than in 75% of compared French towns
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.8 violent offenses and 10.6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. 2025 saw 110 offenses recorded in Vallet. Among the graded crimes here, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
5.8recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearA−Safety Grade
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage34
Family violence20
Theft from vehicles17
Sexual violence13
Other physical violence9
Vehicle theft9
Burglary8
Fraud51
Drug use26
Theft without violence24
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.
5.8
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
10.6
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
110
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
0.4%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For armed robbery, 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, 0.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Who lives here
Few people in Vallet are 65 or over: 17%, below Loire-Atlantique’s towns and compared French towns
Just over a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, higher than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). One measure of family life: 19% of residents are under 15. Half the people of Vallet are older than 40.6.
40.6median age
ValletLoire-Atlantique medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
12%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma17%
CAP or BEP27%
Baccalauréat19%
Higher education34%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Work & commuteJobs & income A
Fewer people in Vallet are out of work than in Loire-Atlantique’s towns or across compared French towns: 5.8%
Jobs located in Vallet: 4,000, for 4,600 residents in work (0.9 each). At the census, 6.7% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (10.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Households’ median disposable income: €26,770 a year per consumption unit.
7%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving87%
On foot3%
Public transport3%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Bicycle1%
4,000
jobs based in Vallet, 0.9 per working resident
5.8%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,770
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
5%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C
Walkability: better than 29% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HousingCost of living C+
Vallet is graded a C+ for cost of living
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,570/m²: 289 houses and apartments sold in Vallet between July 2023 and June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €10.27/m² a month. The sales split: 94% houses, the rest apartments.
€2,570/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Vallet€2,570/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Loire-Atlantique median€2,844/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,553/m²
271
€12.22/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€9.79 to €15.24/m² a month)
6.6
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€10.27/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€27,350
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Sèvre et Loire
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
History
Vallet has 2 historic monuments, 1 classé
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Vallet is Château de la Noë de Bel Air. The oldest protected building goes back to the 19th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 9.2% of the total, above both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (8.5%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B
Vallet has a lower adjusted death rate than 59% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Vallet is L Hopital Prive du Confluent, 13.3 mi away. Its two care homes for older people (74 places) count their residents as Vallet’s; allowing for them, deaths were 15% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 694 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 659, 5% fewer. Women in Loire-Atlantique live to 86.2 on average and men to 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
−15%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw95
Adjusted85
Median town88
Expected100
14
GPs in Vallet · 3.5 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
13.3 mi
to the nearest emergency department, L Hopital Prive du Confluent
13.1 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Clinique Jules Verne Pole hospitalier Mutualiste de Nantes
86.2 · 80.3
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Loire-Atlantique, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Vallet
Is Vallet safe?
It grades A− for safety, #27 of 93 in Loire-Atlantique. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 34 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Vallet good?
They grade A, better than 88% of compared French towns and #16 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Vallet expensive to live in?
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,570/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.22/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Vallet grades C+ for cost of living.
About Vallet
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Vallet is a commune of 9,495 people in the Communauté de communes Sèvre et Loire. 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
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.
