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A town of 3,115 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Angles has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.6 times 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.
The 3 things Angles does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Angles 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.
Angles has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Angles: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1913.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Angles.
That puts Angles below both Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up 50% of the town.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Angles | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 9.1% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 4.9% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 12% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 50% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 18% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
On this, Angles is above both Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €2,824/m², comes from 184 sales of houses and apartments in Angles from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,824/m² | 184 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Angles records 98 deaths per 100 expected, above both Vendée’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 595 residents of Angles died, against 539 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 10% more. 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
In the comparison, Angles comes above both Vendée’s towns (7.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Angles has 500 jobs for 750 working residents, 0.7 per worker. At the census, 5.9% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Angles: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 24 offenses in the graded categories in Angles 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, 40.9% of the index here.
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
Heritage in and near Angles. Best known first.
The list names few of Angles’ 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Donjon de Moricq: Photo: Éduarel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Angles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angles | 3,115 | — | — | C− | — | C |
| Longeville-sur-Mer | 2,625 | 4 | C | D | B− | B− |
| La Tranche-sur-Mer | 3,136 | 4.3 | D− | D | C− | C− |
| L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île | 2,845 | 6.8 | C− | D | C+ | B |
| Jard-sur-Mer | 3,235 | 8.6 | C+ | D | B− | B |
| Luçon | 9,417 | 12 | C+ | B+ | C− | C+ |
| Talmont-Saint-Hilaire | 8,492 | 12 | C | D | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Angles has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 6.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,824/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Angles grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Angles is a commune of 3,115 people in the Communauté de communes Vendée Grand Littoral. 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.