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A town of 2,781 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Saint-Gervais has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−): 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,295/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Challans-Gois Communauté. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 34% 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 Saint-Gervais does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Gervais 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.
Saint-Gervais has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Gervais as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Sallertaine, 3.7 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Gervais.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Vendée: 85.5 years for women, 80.2 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. France’s death rates at each age would predict 261 deaths in Saint-Gervais from 2016 to 2025; there were 194, 26% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Gervais is Centre hospitalier Loire Vendee Ocean site de Challans, 7.2 mi away. The town has 2 family doctors.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 3.9% of commuters at the census. Saint-Gervais holds 400 jobs; 1,200 of its residents are in work, so 0.3 jobs each. Half of residents lived on more than €24,790 a year per consumption unit, lower than both Vendée’s towns (€26,310) and compared French towns (€25,970). 6.9% of the labour force are out of work.
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.
110 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Gervais, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,295/m². From July 2023 to June 2026, 110 homes were sold here. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €9.76/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,295/m² | 110 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
26% of residents have reached 65. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8.8% of residents, below both Vendée’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by a fifth of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Gervais | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie figures for Saint-Gervais show 18 offenses in 2025. Violence against people averaged 2.5 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 7.7. The commonest graded crime locally was burglary (2025).
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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 46.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Saint-Gervais is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Gervais.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Gervais | 2,781 | — | — | C+ | — | A |
| Beauvoir-sur-Mer | 4,035 | 2.5 | C+ | C− | A | C |
| Sallertaine | 3,518 | 4.1 | A− | C | A | A |
| Challans | 22,943 | 7.2 | C+ | C− | C+ | B− |
| La Garnache | 5,515 | 7.6 | A− | C+ | A | A− |
| Soullans | 4,654 | 8.6 | B | C | A | B− |
| Saint-Jean-de-Monts | 8,868 | 8.7 | D | D | D | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Gervais has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 5 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,295/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.54/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Gervais grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Saint-Gervais is a commune of 2,781 people in the Communauté de communes Challans-Gois Communauté. 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.