Where it does best is walkability: just over three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Housing is expensive (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It lags on health as well — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: B for safety and B− for jobs & income.
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 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior). Notre-Dame-de-Monts 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.
Each subject compares Notre-Dame-de-Monts 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.
Ouvrages d'art sur le canal de la Taillée: Photo: Pierre Gouard · CC BY-SA 3.0
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Notre-Dame-de-Monts.
Who lives here
Fewer children live in Notre-Dame-de-Monts than in Vendée’s towns or compared French towns: 9.4% are under 15
62median age
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 5.4% of residents, below Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Retirement age and beyond: 44% of residents are 65 or older. Graduates make up a fifth of adults.
Notre-Dame-de-MontsVendée medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
44%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma24%
CAP or BEP34%
Baccalauréat17%
Higher education20%
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
HousingCost of living D
A home in Notre-Dame-de-Monts sells for €3,519/m², more than in both Vendée’s towns and compared French towns
€3,519/m²median sale price
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Notre-Dame-de-Monts sell for €3,744/m², houses for €3,397/m². The estimated advertised rent is €14.12/m² a month, above Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €10.76/m² a month.
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Notre-Dame-de-Monts€3,519/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Vendée median€2,339/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€3,397/m²
137
Apartments
€3,744/m²
81
€14.12/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€11.23 to €17.75/m² a month)
9.4
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€10.76/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€26,300
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Océan Marais de Monts
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth C
Notre-Dame-de-Monts has a higher adjusted death rate than 74% of compared French towns
−3%deaths against expected, after care homesCHealth Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 415 deaths in Notre-Dame-de-Monts from 2016 to 2025; there were 488, 18% more. Adjusted for age and care homes, Notre-Dame-de-Monts records 97 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Vendée’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Notre-Dame-de-Monts is Centre hospitalier Loire Vendee Ocean site de Challans, 12.2 mi away. One GP practises locally.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw118
Adjusted97
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Notre-Dame-de-Monts · 2.1 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
12.2 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Loire Vendee Ocean site de Challans
12 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Loire Vendee Ocean site de Challans
85.5 · 80.2
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Vendée, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
More people in Notre-Dame-de-Monts are out of work than in Vendée’s towns or across compared French towns: 10.9%
13%walk, cycle or take transit
Notre-Dame-de-Monts holds 650 jobs; 750 of its residents are in work, so 0.8 jobs each. 12.7% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. At the census, 6.1% of working residents in Notre-Dame-de-Monts didn’t travel to work at all.
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving80%
On foot7%
Bicycle5%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Public transport1%
650
jobs based in Notre-Dame-de-Monts, 0.8 per working resident
10.9%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,430
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
6%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 64% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Crime per resident in Notre-Dame-de-Monts is lower than in 61% of compared French towns
3.1recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearBSafety Grade
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Notre-Dame-de-Monts (2025). 39 offenses were reported in Notre-Dame-de-Monts during 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.1 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 16.
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage24
Burglary9
Theft from vehicles6
Armed robbery0
Theft without violence17
Fraud9
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.
3.1
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
16
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
39
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
24.4%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 24.4% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
History
1 historic monument, none of them classé
1historic monument
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 17th century. 2.4% of its homes were built before 1919, below both Vendée’s towns (6.3%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Notre-Dame-de-Monts is a commune of 2,420 people in the Communauté de communes Océan Marais de Monts. 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
Population
2,420 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Océan Marais de Monts
Département
Vendée (85)
Région
Pays de la Loire
Area
8 sq mi (20.8 km²)
INSEE code
85164
Notre-Dame-de-Monts’ neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
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.
