Where it does best is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Jobs and pay hold up well (B+): 1.8 jobs per working resident; 7.0% unemployment. Its weakest subject is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 7% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. 14% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Javron-les-Chapelles 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 Javron-les-Chapelles 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.
SafetyNot graded: over a quarter of the index would rest on the département’s average, where small counts aren’t published–
SchoolsNot graded: no collège with published results within 5 km–
Hazard riskNot graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas–
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Église · Classé · Photo: Ikmo-ned · CC BY-SA 3.0
Javron-les-Chapelles’ story
Javron-les-Chapelles in pictures
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Javron-les-Chapelles: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
22% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Jean Baptiste Fanneau de Lahorie, born in 1767, is the one person born in Javron-les-Chapelles before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
An older town: 37% of people in Javron-les-Chapelles are 65 or over, more than in both Mayenne’s towns and compared French towns
Degrees are held by 13% of adults, below Mayenne’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. Children are 11% of the town. The 15-to-24 age group makes up 7.6% of residents.
57.7median age
Javron-les-ChapellesMayenne medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
37%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma35%
CAP or BEP34%
Baccalauréat12%
Higher education13%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Mayenne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Mayenne median and France median: the median of compared communes
HealthHealth C+
Javron-les-Chapelles sees 93 deaths per 100 expected: under what its ages predict, yet above Mayenne’s towns and compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There is one general practitioner in Javron-les-Chapelles. The nearest emergency department to Javron-les-Chapelles is Centre hospitalier les Andaines, 12.3 mi away. 368 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 292: 26% above. In Mayenne, women can expect to live 86.5 years and men 80.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
−7%deaths against expected, after care homesC+Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw126
Adjusted93
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Javron-les-Chapelles · 2 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
12.3 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier les Andaines
15.1 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Nord Mayenne
86.5 · 80.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Mayenne, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Money is tighter in Javron-les-Chapelles than in Mayenne’s towns or compared French towns: the median disposable income is €23,870 a year per consumption unit
The jobless rate is 7.0%. 7.7% of Javron-les-Chapelles’ working residents had no journey to work at the census.
12%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving78%
On foot11%
Motorbike or scooter2%
Bicycle1%
Public transport0%
900
jobs based in Javron-les-Chapelles, 1.8 per working resident
7.0%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€23,870
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
8%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 63% of compared French towns
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Javron-les-Chapelles
Is Javron-les-Chapelles safe?
Javron-les-Chapelles has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.1 recorded violent incidents and 10.1 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. With 900 jobs for 500 working residents, Javron-les-Chapelles draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
Is Javron-les-Chapelles expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €967/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Javron-les-Chapelles grades A+ for cost of living.
About Javron-les-Chapelles
Commune in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Javron-les-Chapelles is a commune of 1,314 people in the Communauté de communes du Mont des Avaloirs. 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.
