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A town of 1,024 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
La Rabatelière has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 0% 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 health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 45% 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 one thing La Rabatelière does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Rabatelière 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 2 historic monuments in La Rabatelière, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1998.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Rabatelière.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Vendée can expect 85.5 years and a boy 80.2 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 62 residents of La Rabatelière died, against 86 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 28% fewer. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to La Rabatelière is Chd site de Montaigu, 7.9 mi away.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
La Rabatelière has 300 jobs for 500 working residents, 0.6 per worker. Public transport took 2.4% of the town’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 2.2% of working residents in La Rabatelière didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.2 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Sainte-Marie PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 78 | 96%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
16% of residents have reached 65. People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, higher than both Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%). Among adults, 23% have a degree.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| La Rabatelière | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 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.
Renting a house costs an estimated €8.72/m² a month. The market in La Rabatelière: 26 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: 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 17th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 9% of the total, above 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
The list names few of La Rabatelière’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Sanctuaire de la Salette: Photo: FredSeiller · CC0
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm La Rabatelière as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Rabatelière | 1,024 | — | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Chauché | 2,613 | 2.2 | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Chavagnes-en-Paillers | 3,726 | 2.3 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
| Les Brouzils | 2,938 | 3.6 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Saint-Fulgent | 3,994 | 3.9 | A+ | B | A | B+ |
| Essarts-en-Bocage | 6,851 | 6 | A+ | B+ | B+ | A− |
| L'Herbergement | 3,482 | 6.4 | — | B | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Rabatelière has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7.4 recorded violent incidents and 9.3 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 92% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
La Rabatelière is a commune of 1,024 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) · 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.