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1,018 people live in this town in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire.
Health is its strong suit: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 37% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (C−): 78% 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. La Plaine 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.
Each subject compares La Plaine 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.
La Plaine 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 La Plaine as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhir dit La Pierre des Hommes, in Coron, 3.8 mi away.
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Plaine.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Maine-et-Loire, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 81.1 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 44 residents of La Plaine died, against 70 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 37% fewer. The nearest emergency department to La Plaine is Centre hospitalier de Cholet, 12.5 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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in La Plaine: 26 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
5.7% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Maine-et-Loire’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). 250 jobs are based in La Plaine, for 450 working residents (0.6 per worker). Households’ median disposable income: €24,290 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
One measure of family life: 20% of residents are under 15. 18% of residents are 65 or over, below both Maine-et-Loire’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Maine-et-Loire 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| La Plaine | Maine-et-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 29% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Maine-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in La Plaine 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 La Plaine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Plaine | 1,018 | — | — | A | — | A+ |
| Maulévrier | 3,172 | 6.6 | — | A− | — | A |
| Trémentines | 3,101 | 8.2 | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Lys-Haut-Layon | 7,748 | 8.5 | A+ | A | A | B+ |
| Nueil-les-Aubiers Deux-Sèvres | 5,483 | 8.5 | A+ | A | A− | B |
| Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 8,573 | 11 | A+ | A− | A | B |
| Chemillé-en-Anjou | 21,999 | 11 | A+ | A− | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Plaine has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7.6 recorded violent incidents and 8.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire
La Plaine is a commune of 1,018 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Cholet Agglomération. 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) · 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.