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Some 1,226 people live in this town, in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Treize-Vents’s strongest subject is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 44% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Walkability is its weak spot (D): 56% 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 €1,762/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Mortagne. Second homes make up a tenth of its housing.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Treize-Vents 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.
The 2 things Treize-Vents does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Treize-Vents 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.
Treize-Vents has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Treize-Vents as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine du château de la Blandinière, in Mauléon, 3.4 mi away.
13% 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 Treize-Vents.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Treize-Vents is Centre hospitalier de Cholet, 8.8 mi away. 61 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 108: 44% below. Average lifespans in Vendée: 85.5 years for women, 80.2 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
5.8% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Vendée’s towns (7.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 3.6% of commuters travelled at the census. 250 jobs are based in Treize-Vents, for 550 working residents (0.4 per worker). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €24,150 a year per consumption unit.
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.
Behind the median of €1,762/m²: 40 houses and apartments sold in Treize-Vents between July 2023 and June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €7.31/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,762/m² | 40 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
20% of residents are 65 or over. The age that splits Treize-Vents in two is 42.8. Degrees are held by 27% of adults, about level with Vendée’s towns (26%) and below compared French towns (30%).
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Treize-Vents | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 26% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3.9 violent offenses and 6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Among the graded crimes in Treize-Vents, the most frequent was other physical violence (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, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
Nothing in Treize-Vents 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 Treize-Vents 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treize-Vents | 1,226 | — | — | A− | — | A+ |
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre | 3,550 | 3.3 | — | B+ | — | B |
| Les Epesses | 2,983 | 3.4 | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 8,573 | 4.5 | A+ | A− | A | B |
| La Tessoualle Maine-et-Loire | 3,167 | 5.9 | — | B− | — | A− |
| Sèvremont | 6,385 | 5.9 | A+ | B | A+ | A |
| Chanverrie | 5,653 | 7 | — | B+ | — | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Treize-Vents has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,762/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Treize-Vents grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Treize-Vents is a commune of 1,226 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 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.