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A town of 1,725 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Falleron has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 69% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is cost of living (B): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.4 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 one thing Falleron does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Falleron 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Falleron as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne commanderie de templiers de Coudrie, in Challans, 4.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Falleron.
Half of residents lived on more than €24,630 a year per consumption unit, below both Vendée’s towns (€26,310) and compared French towns (€25,970). Falleron has 350 jobs for 800 working residents, 0.4 per worker. 4.1% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.46/m² a month, near Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses accounted for 98% of sales, apartments for the rest. Also worth knowing: for a house, the estimated advertised rent is €8.96/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,007/m² | 54 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nearly a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, about level with Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and below compared French towns (11%). The middle age in Falleron is 42. Those 65 and older account for 21% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Falleron | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 36% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 146 residents of Falleron died, against 134 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 9% more. Its care home for older people (23 places) counts its residents as Falleron’s; allowing for it, deaths were 14% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Falleron is Centre hospitalier Loire Vendee Ocean site de Challans, 8.1 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Vendée is 85.5 years for women and 80.2 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Nothing in Falleron 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 Falleron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falleron | 1,725 | — | — | B | — | B |
| Saint-Christophe-du-Ligneron | 2,727 | 4.5 | — | B | — | A− |
| Legé Loire-Atlantique | 4,817 | 5.6 | B | B | B+ | C |
| La Garnache | 5,515 | 6.2 | A− | C+ | A | A− |
| Corcoué-sur-Logne Loire-Atlantique | 3,265 | 7.9 | — | C+ | — | D |
| Challans | 22,943 | 8.5 | C+ | C− | C+ | B− |
| Commequiers | 3,735 | 10 | — | B | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Falleron has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.4 recorded violent incidents and 6.2 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 Falleron grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Falleron is a commune of 1,725 people in the Communauté de communes de Vie et Boulogne. 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.