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A town of 1,831 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Maché has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 72% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% 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 5.6 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 Maché does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Maché 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 Maché as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Mégalithe dit La Pierre-des-Farfadets, in Le Poiré-sur-Vie, 6.2 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Maché.
4.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, close to Vendée’s towns (7.6%) and below compared French towns (13.4%). Maché has 450 jobs for 850 working residents, 0.5 per worker.
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.
After the care-home adjustment, Maché’s deaths ran at 100 per 100 expected, above both Vendée’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
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
On this, Maché is below both Vendée’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%). Under-15s account for 19% of the population.
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Maché | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 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.
That is the middle of 57 sales of houses and apartments in Maché from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €2,339/m² for the median of compared towns in Vendée.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,048/m² | 56 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 20 offenses in the graded categories in Maché in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 40.3% 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 and other places to visit in and near Maché. Best known first.
Nothing in Maché 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 Maché 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maché | 1,831 | — | — | B | — | C− |
| Aizenay | 10,365 | 4 | A | C+ | B+ | B+ |
| Coëx | 3,428 | 5.2 | — | C+ | — | C |
| Saint-Christophe-du-Ligneron | 2,727 | 5.4 | — | B | — | A− |
| Commequiers | 3,735 | 7 | — | B | — | B− |
| Le Poiré-sur-Vie | 8,649 | 9.1 | A+ | C+ | A | A− |
| Venansault | 4,757 | 9.5 | A+ | B | A+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Maché has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 6.2 recorded violent incidents and 9.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €10.48/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Maché grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Maché is a commune of 1,831 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.