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Home to 1,156 people, this town lies in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
A 70 m² home at the median €2,387/m² costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays des Achards. Walkability is its weak spot (D). Work and incomes lag: 0.1 jobs per working resident; 7.9% unemployment. Only 15% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Le Girouard 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 2 things Le Girouard does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Girouard 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.
Le Girouard 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 Le Girouard as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château des Granges-Cathus, in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, 6.5 mi away.
14% 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 Le Girouard.
At the census, 3.5% of commuters got to work without a car. Unemployment stood at 7.9%, about level with Vendée’s towns (7.7%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). Also worth knowing: the typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €25,220 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 make up 11% of the town. 25% of adults hold a degree, near Vendée’s towns (26%) and lower than compared French towns (30%). Ages in Le Girouard split evenly at 39.2: half are older, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Le Girouard | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 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.
32 sales of houses and apartments in Le Girouard, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,387/m². Renting a house costs an estimated €10.13/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 32 homes were sold here.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,387/m² | 32 |
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, 57 residents of Le Girouard died, against 64 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 12% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Le Girouard is Centre hospitalier Cote de Lumiere, 8.3 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A.
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 6.5 violent offenses and 6.8 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Of the graded crimes in Le Girouard, armed robbery 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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (100.0% of the index here).
Nothing in Le Girouard 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 Le Girouard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Girouard | 1,156 | — | — | B− | — | B− |
| Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups | 2,585 | 3.2 | — | B− | — | A |
| Les Achards | 5,518 | 3.9 | A | C− | A+ | B |
| Nieul-le-Dolent | 2,571 | 4.1 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Sainte-Foy | 2,717 | 4.6 | — | C | — | A+ |
| Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux | 7,191 | 6.5 | A | B | A | A |
| Talmont-Saint-Hilaire | 8,492 | 7.4 | C | D | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Girouard has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,387/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Le Girouard grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Le Girouard is a commune of 1,156 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays des Achards. 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.