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BéhuardMaine-et-Loire

It is a town of 115 residents in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire.

Is Béhuard a good place to live?

With fewer than 1,000 residents, Béhuard falls below the line for grades. Second homes make up just over a third of its housing.

What makes Béhuard stand out

The one thing Béhuard does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Église
Église · Classé · Photo: travail personnel (own work) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Béhuard’s story

Béhuard in pictures

On the Culture ministry’s list, Béhuard counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.

The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 1862.

Part of the town has been a protected historic area, a site patrimonial remarquable, since 2004.

57% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1948First protected: Deux maisons du 15e et du 18e siècle, à proximité de l'égli…
  • 2004The protected historic area is created
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Landmarks

The list names few of Béhuard’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.

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Photo credits

Deux maisons du 15e et du 18e siècle, à proximité de l'église: Photo: travail personnel (own work) · CC BY-SA 3.0

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Béhuard.

History

Old homes shape Béhuard: 57% were built before 1919, more than in Maine-et-Loire’s towns and across compared French towns

2historic monuments

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

Part of the town has been protected as a historic area since 2004. The oldest protected building goes back to the 15th century. Among the classé monuments in Béhuard is Deux maisons du 15e et du 18e siècle, à proximité de l'église.

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé2
Inscrit0
15th c.
oldest protected part
1862
first monument protected
2004
protected historic area (site patrimonial remarquable)
57%
of homes built before 1919 · median town 7.4%

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Who lives here

Degrees are more common in Béhuard than in Maine-et-Loire’s towns or across compared French towns: 56% of adults

53.2median age

14% of residents are children under 15. The 15-to-24 age group: 9.6%, below both Maine-et-Loire’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). The age that splits Béhuard in two is 53.2.

BéhuardMaine-et-Loire medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma8%
CAP or BEP13%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education56%

Women and men · all residents

48% women, 52% men

About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Maine-et-Loire 50.9%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Béhuard
BéhuardMaine-et-Loire medianFrance median
Under 1514%18%17%
15–249.6%11%11%
25–4415%22%23%
45–6440%26%26%
65+22%23%22%
No diploma7.8%20%19%
CAP or BEP13%28%26%
Baccalauréat18%18%18%
Higher education56%29%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Maine-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes

Work & commute

Fewer people in Béhuard are out of work than in Maine-et-Loire’s towns or across compared French towns: 5.3%

18%walk, cycle or take transit

17.9% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, higher than both Maine-et-Loire’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). At the census, 1.8% of working residents in Béhuard didn’t travel to work at all.

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving79%
Public transport13%
On foot5%
Motorbike or scooter2%
Bicycle0%
0
jobs based in Béhuard, 0.3 per working resident
5.3%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€25,600
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
2%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

The estimated advertised rent of an apartment in Béhuard is €11.18/m² a month

€11.18/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 5 homes in Béhuard.

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Béhuard€11.18/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Maine-et-Loire median€10.78/m²
€11.18/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.75 to €14.29/m² a month)
€10.36/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Béhuard

12pages on Béhuard
Nearby attractions

La Douceur Angevine - Visites Guidées de Béhuard and 19 more in and around Béhuard

Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Béhuard. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata

Famous people from Béhuard

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Béhuard yet.

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About Béhuard

Commune in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire

Béhuard is a commune of 115 people in the Communauté urbaine Angers Loire 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

Population
115 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté urbaine Angers Loire Métropole
Département
Maine-et-Loire (49)
Région
Pays de la Loire
Area
0.9 sq mi (2.2 km²)
INSEE code
49028

Béhuard’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Maine-et-Loire →
La PossonnièreBouchemaineVal-du-LayonSainte-Gemmes-sur-LoireMûrs-ErignéSaint-Georges-sur-LoireLa PossonnièreBouchemaineVal-du-LayonSainte-Gemmes-sur-LoireMûrs-ErignéSaint-Georges-sur-LoireBéhuard
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Béhuard115—————
La Possonnière2,5012.4—B−—B+
Bouchemaine6,5804.4A−DAB+
Val-du-Layon3,5104.6—B—A
Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire3,6855A−C−B−A
Mûrs-Erigné6,4085.4BC−BB+
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire3,8365.6B+BB−B−

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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 9, 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.