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1,824 people live in this town in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on walkability as well — 56% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Champagné-les-Marais 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.
The one thing Champagné-les-Marais does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Champagné-les-Marais 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.
Champagné-les-Marais has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Champagné-les-Marais as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ensemble cathédral, in Luçon, 5.4 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 Champagné-les-Marais.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,935/m², below Vendée’s towns (€2,339/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Sales in Champagné-les-Marais from July 2023 to June 2026: 63 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,935/m² | 63 |
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 239 residents of Champagné-les-Marais died, against 222 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% more. After the care-home adjustment, Champagné-les-Marais’ deaths ran at 81 per 100 expected, about level with Vendée’s towns (85) and below compared French towns (88). Life expectancy in Vendée: 85.5 years for women and 80.2 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. For a family doctor, residents of Champagné-les-Marais have one GP on hand.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Half of residents lived on more than €24,330 a year per consumption unit, below Vendée’s towns (€26,310) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. 10.0% of people in the labour force have no job. At the census, 6.4% of working residents in Champagné-les-Marais didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 15%, lower than both Vendée’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). The 65-and-over age group makes up 27% of residents. Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Champagné-les-Marais | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Champagné-les-Marais is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Champagné-les-Marais 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champagné-les-Marais | 1,824 | — | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Luçon | 9,417 | 5.5 | C+ | B+ | C− | C+ |
| Marans Charente-Maritime | 4,476 | 8.1 | B | B− | B− | B− |
| L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île | 2,845 | 9.3 | C− | D | C+ | B |
| Marsilly Charente-Maritime | 3,176 | 11 | — | D | — | A+ |
| Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais | 2,808 | 11 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-d'Hermine | 3,611 | 12 | A− | A | B− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Champagné-les-Marais has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 6.1 recorded violent incidents and 9.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Champagné-les-Marais grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Champagné-les-Marais is a commune of 1,824 people in the Communauté de communes Sud Vendée 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 November 4, 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.