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A town in Vendée, Pays de la Loire, home to 3,550 people.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 1.2 jobs per working resident; 5.9% unemployment. Schools are another plus — bac results 0.6 points above the expected rate; brevet results at the expected rate. A 70 m² home at the median €2,006/m² costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Mortagne. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 56% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre 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-Laurent-sur-Sèvre has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château du Puy-du-Fou, in Les Epesses, 4.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, 98.9% passed the bac, higher than both Vendée’s towns (97.1%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Its collèges and lycées rank #14 of 34 in Vendée on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Gabriel Saint-Michel PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 161 | 95%±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Saint-Gabriel Saint-Michel PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 177 | 100%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
5.1% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Vendée’s towns (7.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. At the census, 3.8% of working residents in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
The median price, €2,006/m², comes from 115 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses were 97% of what sold. From July 2023 to June 2026, 115 homes were sold in the town.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,975/m² | 111 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
2 GPs practise in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre. Its two care homes for older people (232 places) count their residents as Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre’s; allowing for them, deaths were 15% below expected. 771 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 571: 35% above. In Vendée, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 80.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
25% of residents are 65 or over. Degrees are held by 32% of adults, above Vendée’s towns (26%) and close to compared French towns (30%). Children under 15 make up 17% of residents.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre has 1,900 jobs for 1,550 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. The police record for Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre lists 15 offenses in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 3.8 cases of violence against people and 5.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Of the graded crimes in the town, sexual violence came up most often (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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 35.6% of the index here. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit and museums in and near Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre. Best known first.
Nothing in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre 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 Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre | 3,550 | — | — | B+ | — | B |
| Mortagne-sur-Sèvre | 6,057 | 3.8 | A+ | B | B+ | B |
| La Tessoualle Maine-et-Loire | 3,167 | 4 | — | B− | — | A− |
| Chanverrie | 5,653 | 4.6 | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Les Epesses | 2,983 | 5.1 | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Saint-Christophe-du-Bois Maine-et-Loire | 2,828 | 5.6 | — | C+ | — | A+ |
| Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 8,573 | 6.4 | A+ | A− | A | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 88% of compared French towns and #14 of 34 in Vendée. The lycée stands out: 100% of 177 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Saint-Gabriel Saint-Michel in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. 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 €2,006/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre is a commune of 3,550 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Mortagne. 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 November 4, 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.