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A town of 1,369 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Longèves 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 2% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €1,750/m², a 70 m² home costs 5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Pays de Fontenay-Vendée. Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 38% 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 Longèves does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Longèves 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 →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Longèves as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Terre-Neuve, in Fontenay-le-Comte, 1.8 mi away.
12% 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 Longèves.
1.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Vendée’s towns (7.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Longèves has 250 jobs for 600 working residents, 0.4 per worker. Unemployment stands at 6.9%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For Longèves, that is below both Vendée’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 78 residents of Longèves died, against 99 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 22% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Longèves sits close to Vendée’s towns (92.4%) and above compared French towns (87.5%) on this measure.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François VieteNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 113 | 85%−6 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent François RabelaisNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 181 | 97%±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Notre-Dame PrivateBest against expectations: 9 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 28 | 100%+9 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Longèves below both Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,750/m², comes from 34 sales of houses and apartments in Longèves from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,750/m² | 34 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
9.4% of residents are 15 to 24 and 24% are 65 or over, against 9.9% and 23% in the median compared commune of Vendée. 27% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Vendée 26%, France 30%).
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Longèves | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 0 offenses in the graded categories in Longèves in 2025. For family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
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
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Longèves. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau de Terre Neuve2.9 km southeast, in Fontenay-le-ComteMonastery or conventMonastery or conventCouvent des Tiercelettes3.2 km east, in Fontenay-le-ComteAbbeyAbbeyPrieuré Notre-Dame de Fontenay-le-Comte3.3 km east, in Fontenay-le-ComteAttractionAttractionFontaine des Quatre Tias3.5 km east, in Fontenay-le-ComteMuseumMuseumMusée Vendéen3.3 km east, in Fontenay-le-ComteChâteauChâteauChâteau Baron3.4 km east, in Fontenay-le-ComtePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Longèves 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 Longèves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longèves | 1,369 | — | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Fontenay-le-Comte | 14,059 | 2.3 | B+ | B | C− | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-d'Hermine | 3,611 | 12 | A− | A | B− | B− |
| La Châtaigneraie | 2,600 | 13 | A− | A | B− | D |
| Marans Charente-Maritime | 4,476 | 13 | B | B− | B− | B− |
| Benet | 4,089 | 14 | A | B+ | A+ | C+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-Liversay Charente-Maritime | 3,063 | 14 | — | C | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Longèves has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5 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.
They grade A−, better than 79% of compared French towns. 97% of 181 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent François Rabelais in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,750/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Longèves grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Longèves is a commune of 1,369 people in the Communauté de communes Pays de Fontenay-Vendée. 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.