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A town of 2,000 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Saint-Urbain has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 59% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Saint-Urbain does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Urbain 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 Saint-Urbain as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Sallertaine, 2.8 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Urbain.
For its 900 residents in work, Saint-Urbain has 150 jobs: 0.2 each. The jobless rate is 8.5%. No commute at all: 3.1% of working residents here at the census.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Saint-Urbain is Centre hospitalier Loire Vendee Ocean site de Challans, 7 mi away. Adjusted mortality here: 105 deaths for every 100 expected. 118 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 113: 5% above. Women in Vendée live to 85.5 on average and men to 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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A home here costs 6.7 years of the median income in Communauté de communes Challans-Gois Communauté. A house rents for an estimated €9.76/m² a month. 71 houses and apartments changed hands in Saint-Urbain from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,443/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 20% of adults, below Vendée’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. At 41.9, the median resident of Saint-Urbain sits in the middle of the age range. Those aged 15 to 24 account for one in ten residents.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Urbain | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
Other places to visit and museums in and near Saint-Urbain. Best known first.
Nothing in Saint-Urbain 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-Urbain 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-Urbain | 2,000 | — | — | C+ | — | D |
| Saint-Gervais | 2,781 | 2.1 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Beauvoir-sur-Mer | 4,035 | 2.8 | C+ | C− | A | C |
| Sallertaine | 3,518 | 3.7 | A− | C | A | A |
| Saint-Jean-de-Monts | 8,868 | 6.7 | D | D | D | C− |
| Challans | 22,943 | 6.9 | C+ | C− | C+ | B− |
| Soullans | 4,654 | 7.6 | B | C | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Urbain has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 8.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.54/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Urbain grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Saint-Urbain is a commune of 2,000 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.