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A town of 1,079 in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire.
Bazougers has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 1% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is cost of living (A+): A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 25% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Bazougers 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.
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On the Culture ministry’s list, Bazougers counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1889.
22% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bazougers.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 25 homes in Bazougers.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Mayenne, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.5 years for women and 80.6 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. 47 deaths in Bazougers between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 79: 41% below. The nearest emergency department to Bazougers is Centre hospitalier de Laval, 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Bazougers holds 300 jobs; 550 of its residents are in work, so 0.6 jobs each. Unemployment stood at 5.9%, about level with Mayenne’s towns (6.7%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). 7.1% of Bazougers’ 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
Retirement age and beyond: 18% of residents are 65 or older. The middle age in Bazougers is 42. The share aged 15 to 24 is 11%.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Mayenne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Bazougers | Mayenne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Mayenne median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in prehistory. Among the classé monuments in Bazougers is Menhir de la Hune.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The list names few of Bazougers’ 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Menhir de la Hune: Photo: Bazouge53 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Bazougers as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazougers | 1,079 | — | — | A+ | — | A+ |
| Meslay-du-Maine | 2,779 | 5 | A+ | A | A+ | A− |
| Argentré | 2,906 | 5.2 | A+ | A− | A+ | A |
| Bonchamp-lès-Laval | 6,302 | 6.6 | A+ | B+ | A | A |
| L'Huisserie | 4,672 | 8.6 | A+ | B+ | A+ | B− |
| Montsûrs | 3,192 | 8.8 | A+ | A | A+ | B |
| Louverné | 4,344 | 9.1 | A+ | B | A | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bazougers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.5 recorded violent incidents and 5.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Bazougers is a commune of 1,079 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Meslay-Grez. 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 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.