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A town of 3,100 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Nesmy has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−): 58% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,160/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération. 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 Nesmy does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Nesmy 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.
Nesmy has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Nesmy, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 2008.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Nesmy.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
That puts Nesmy below both Vendée’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 137 residents of Nesmy died, against 215 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 36% 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
On this, Nesmy is below both Vendée’s towns (7.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Nesmy has 450 jobs for 1,450 working residents, 0.3 per worker. 3.5% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport 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.
In the comparison, Nesmy comes below both Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €2,160/m², comes from 90 sales of houses and apartments in Nesmy from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,200/m² | 87 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); 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 Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Nesmy, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
For Nesmy, that is above both Vendée’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). Over-65s are 20% of the population.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Nesmy | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Nesmy sits close to Vendée’s towns (92.4%) and above compared French towns (87.5%) on this measure.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Stéphane PiobettaNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 133 | 91%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 26 offenses in the graded categories in Nesmy in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual violence, 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, 33.5% 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
Nesmy has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Nesmy: Photo: Collection A. Robin, Fontenay-le-Comte · Public domain
One notable person was born in Nesmy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nesmy | 3,100 | — | — | B | — | A+ |
| Rives de l'Yon | 4,335 | 3.1 | A− | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux | 7,191 | 3.9 | A | B | A | A |
| Nieul-le-Dolent | 2,571 | 5.1 | — | C | — | B+ |
| La Roche-sur-Yon | 54,849 | 5.3 | B− | C+ | C− | B− |
| La Chaize-le-Vicomte | 3,948 | 7.5 | — | B | — | C+ |
| Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups | 2,585 | 8.4 | — | B− | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Nesmy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 7.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 50% of compared French towns and #27 of 34 in Vendée. 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 €2,160/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Nesmy grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Nesmy is a commune of 3,100 people in the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération. 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.