Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It is a town of 6,851 residents in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
A strong record with one exception. Its schools beat most (A): brevet results 3 points above the expected rate. It is hard to get around without a car: just over a third of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Buying 70 m² at the median €1,969/m² takes 5.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Saint-Fulgent - Les Essarts. The overall grade comes out at A+, #6 of 46 in Vendée. Set against the rest, it does better than 97% of compared French towns.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Essarts-en-Bocage does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Essarts-en-Bocage 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 TownRatings grades French towns →
On the Culture ministry’s list, Essarts-en-Bocage counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1962.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Essarts-en-Bocage.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its collèges and lycées rank #12 of 34 in Vendée on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges ClemenceauNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 110 | 90%+3 pts |
| Collège Saint-Pierre PrivateBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 147 | 98%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Essarts-en-Bocage is Chd site la Roche Sur Yon, 10.9 mi away. 591 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 568: 4% above. In Vendée, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.5 years for women and 80.2 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. The town has 7 family doctors.
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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
At the census, 5.5% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Vendée’s towns (7.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. 6,050 jobs are based in Essarts-en-Bocage, for 3,300 working residents (1.8 per worker). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €25,780 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In all, 115 offenses reached the police record in Essarts-en-Bocage in 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 8.4 violent offenses and 8.3 graded property crimes a year. Of the graded crimes locally, family violence came up most often (2025).
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 · For 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, 1.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
17% of residents have reached 65. People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, above Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Ages in Essarts-en-Bocage split evenly at 40.9: half are older, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Essarts-en-Bocage | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 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.
Half the homes sold went for more than €1,969/m², below both Vendée’s towns (€2,339/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). From July 2023 to June 2026, 164 homes were sold in Essarts-en-Bocage. A house rents for an estimated €9.02/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,969/m² | 164 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 12th century. Among the classé monuments in Essarts-en-Bocage is Église romane (ancienne). Also worth knowing: nearly a tenth of its homes were built before 1919, higher than both Vendée’s towns (6.3%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage in and near Essarts-en-Bocage. Best known first.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Essarts-en-Bocage counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
Église romane (ancienne): Photo: Éduarel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Château (ruines du vieux): Photo: Spouik · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Essarts-en-Bocage 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essarts-en-Bocage | 6,851 | — | A+ | B+ | B+ | A− |
| Chauché | 2,613 | 4.1 | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Saint-Martin-des-Noyers | 2,560 | 4.5 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| La Ferrière | 5,454 | 5.6 | A+ | B | A | A− |
| Saint-Fulgent | 3,994 | 6.4 | A+ | B | A | B+ |
| Dompierre-sur-Yon | 4,625 | 7.3 | A− | B− | A | C |
| La Chaize-le-Vicomte | 3,948 | 7.6 | — | B | — | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #23 of 46 in Vendée. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 12 burglaries and 27 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 91% of compared French towns and #12 of 34 in Vendée. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Essarts-en-Bocage grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Essarts-en-Bocage is a commune of 6,851 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Saint-Fulgent - Les Essarts. 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.
