Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,504 in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire.
Renazé has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C): 1.3 jobs per working resident; 11.5% unemployment. At the median price of €973/m², a 70 m² home costs 2.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Craon. Its strongest is health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Renazé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Renazé 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.
Renazé has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Renazé as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Pierre dressée du Haut-Bois, in Bouchamps-lès-Craon, 3.8 mi away.
16% 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 Renazé.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
6 GPs practise in Renazé. Adjusted for age and care homes, Renazé records 75 deaths per 100 expected, close to Mayenne’s towns (78) and below compared French towns (88). The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €973/m², below both Mayenne’s towns (€1,696/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). No town in Mayenne costs less to buy into than Renazé, at €973/m², the lowest of 19.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €969/m² | 121 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Renazé sits below both Mayenne’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (30%) on this measure. Over-65s are 34% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Mayenne 52.1%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Renazé | Mayenne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 39% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 13% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 9% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Mayenne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Renazé below Mayenne’s towns (90.3%) and close to compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Alfred JarryNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 53 | 87%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On this, Renazé is above both Mayenne’s towns (6.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The median disposable income is €23,090 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 20 offenses in the graded categories in Renazé in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 25.5% of the index here. With 1,100 jobs for 850 working residents, Renazé draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
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.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Renazé is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Renazé.
Marc Madiot: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yvon Madiot: Eric HOUDAS, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renazé | 2,504 | — | — | A− | — | A− |
| Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 8,813 | 5.1 | A− | A | B− | A |
| Craon | 4,431 | 6.1 | A+ | A− | B | B |
| Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 17,667 | 11 | A | B+ | C+ | B+ |
| Cossé-le-Vivien | 3,174 | 12 | A− | A | A+ | C− |
| Martigné-Ferchaud Ille-et-Vilaine | 2,688 | 13 | — | B | — | C |
| La Guerche-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4,554 | 13 | A+ | A− | B+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Renazé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.6 recorded violent incidents and 6.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A−, better than 77% of compared French towns and #5 of 15 in Mayenne. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €10.13/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Renazé grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Renazé is a commune of 2,504 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Craon. 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) · 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.