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A town of 1,246 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Poiroux has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D−): 36% 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 €2,466/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Vendée Grand Littoral. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 27% 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 2 things Poiroux does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Poiroux 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 Poiroux as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Pierre branlante, in Avrillé, 2.4 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 Poiroux.
Households’ median disposable income: €24,740 a year per consumption unit. 2.3% 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%). Jobs located in Poiroux: 150, for 550 residents in work (0.3 each).
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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 99 deaths in Poiroux from 2016 to 2025; there were 93, 6% fewer. Women in Vendée live to 85.5 on average and men to 80.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Poiroux is Centre hospitalier Cote de Lumiere, 10.1 mi away.
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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A+.
8.6% of residents are 15 to 24, below both Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%). Among adults, 23% have a degree. Poiroux has a median age of 40.
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Poiroux | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 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.
Behind the median of €2,466/m²: 50 houses and apartments sold in Poiroux between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,466/m² | 50 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 4.6 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 7. In 2025, other physical violence led the graded crimes in Poiroux.
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, sexual violence, burglary, theft from vehicles 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).
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Poiroux. Best known first.
Nothing in Poiroux is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Poiroux.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poiroux | 1,246 | — | — | B− | — | A |
| Nieul-le-Dolent | 2,571 | 4.8 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Talmont-Saint-Hilaire | 8,492 | 5.3 | C | D | B | C+ |
| Jard-sur-Mer | 3,235 | 6.3 | C+ | D | B− | B |
| Longeville-sur-Mer | 2,625 | 6.7 | C | D | B− | B− |
| Sainte-Foy | 2,717 | 6.9 | — | C | — | A+ |
| Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups | 2,585 | 7.7 | — | B− | — | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Poiroux 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 €2,466/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Poiroux grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Poiroux is a commune of 1,246 people in the Communauté de communes Vendée Grand Littoral. 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.