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A town of 4,344 in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire.

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2013-05-04 Gare de Louverné - four à chaux

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Is Louverné a good place to live?

Louverné grades A+ overall: better than almost every compared French town, and #3 of 16 in Mayenne. At the median price of €2,023/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 1 job per working resident; 5.5% unemployment.

Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.

What makes Louverné stand out

The 2 things Louverné does most differently from other towns.

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How Louverné grades

Each subject compares Louverné 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.

How grading works

How TownRatings grades French towns →

Louverné’s outline. No photo of the town is in our collection yet.
Louverné’s story

No historic monuments in Louverné

The Culture ministry lists no building in Louverné as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.

The nearest classé monument is Chapelle Notre-Dame de Pritz, in Laval, 3.6 mi away.

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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Louverné.

Safety

Crime per resident in Louverné runs lower than in 88% of compared French towns

Police and gendarmerie recorded 55 offenses in the graded categories in Louverné in 2025. Violence against people ran at 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10 (2023–2025 average). For other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft, 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, 9.2% of the index here.

3.5recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearASafety Grade

Recorded by type · 2025

Family violence18
Burglary16
Criminal damage12
Theft from vehicles9
Armed robbery0
Fraud28
Theft without violence5

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.

3.5
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
10
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
55
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
9.2%
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

HealthHealth A

Allowing for age and care homes, Louverné sees fewer deaths than Mayenne’s towns or compared French towns: 73 per 100 expected

Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.

On this, Louverné is below both Mayenne’s towns (78) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 294 residents of Louverné died, against 403 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 27% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.

−27%deaths against expected, after care homesAHealth Grade

Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025

Raw73
Adjusted73
Median town88
Expected100
3
GPs in Louverné · 3.8 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
4.9 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Laval
4.9 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Laval
86.5 · 80.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Mayenne, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3

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

HousingCost of living B

Renting in Louverné costs an estimated advertised €10.41/m² a month, against €9.49/m² in Mayenne’s towns and €12.41/m² in compared French towns

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

The median price, €2,023/m², comes from 121 sales of houses and apartments in Louverné from July 2023 to June 2026.

€2,023/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Louverné€2,023/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Mayenne median€1,696/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€2,020/m²112
€10.41/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.08 to €13.40/m² a month)
5.5
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€8.78/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€25,880
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Work & commuteJobs & income A

Unemployment in Louverné, 5.5%, runs below Mayenne’s towns and compared French towns

In the comparison, Louverné comes below both Mayenne’s towns (6.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Louverné has 2,000 jobs for 1,900 working residents, 1 per worker. At the census, 6.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.

6%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving90%
Public transport3%
On foot2%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
2,000
jobs based in Louverné, 1 per working resident
5.5%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,750
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 45% of compared French towns

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

Who lives here

A town of families: 18% of people in Louverné are under 15, more than in Mayenne’s towns or compared French towns

For Louverné, that is above both Mayenne’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%).

45.8median age
LouvernéMayenne medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma20%
CAP or BEP30%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education28%

Women and men · all residents

52% women, 48% men

About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Mayenne 52.1%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Louverné
LouvernéMayenne medianFrance median
Under 1518%16%17%
15–2410%10%11%
25–4420%20%23%
45–6428%26%26%
65+23%27%22%
No diploma20%24%19%
CAP or BEP30%29%26%
Baccalauréat18%17%18%
Higher education28%25%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Mayenne median and France median: the median of compared communes

Nearby attractions

Echologia and 4 more in and around Louverné

Heritage and family days out in and near Louverné. Best known first.

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Everything we know about Louverné

14pages on Louverné

Landmarks

Nothing in Louverné is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.

Its history page →

Famous people from Louverné

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

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Louverné’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 Mayenne →
Bonchamp-lès-LavalChangéArgentréLavalSaint-BerthevinL'HuisserieBonchamp-lès-LavalChangéArgentréLavalSaint-BerthevinL'HuisserieLouverné
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Louverné4,344—A+BAA
Bonchamp-lès-Laval6,3023.2A+B+AA
Changé6,5023.6A−C+B−A
Argentré2,9064.1A+A−A+A
Laval49,4004.4BB−DB+
Saint-Berthevin7,4796.3A+B−B−A
L'Huisserie4,6727.1A+B+A+B−

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

Questions about Louverné

Is Louverné safe?

It grades A for safety, #7 of 16 in Mayenne. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 16 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.

Is Louverné expensive to live in?

Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,023/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Louverné grades B for cost of living.

About Louverné

Commune in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire

Louverné is a commune of 4,344 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Laval 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

Population
4,344 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération
Département
Mayenne (53)
Région
Pays de la Loire
Area
8 sq mi (20.8 km²)
INSEE code
53140

Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · 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.