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A town of 4,757 in Vendée, Pays de la Loire.
Venansault grades A+ overall: better than 97% of compared French towns, and #8 of 46 in Vendée. Its weakest subject is walkability (C): 46% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,283/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération. Its strongest is safety (A+): an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 5.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Venansault does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Venansault 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Venansault as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Abbaye des Fontenelles (ancienne), in La Roche-sur-Yon, 2.2 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Venansault.
Police and gendarmerie recorded 33 offenses in the graded categories in Venansault in 2025. Venansault comes 2nd of the 46 compared towns in Vendée on the Safety Grade. For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 24.6% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Venansault is below both Vendée’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 348 residents of Venansault died, against 385 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 10% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
5.2% of Venansault’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 90% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Venansault comes above both Vendée’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are 11% of the population.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Venansault | Vendée median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 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.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.48/m² a month, close to Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €2,283/m², comes from 141 sales of houses and apartments in Venansault from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,283/m² | 141 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, gardens and other places to visit in and near Venansault. Best known first.
GardenLes Jardins du Loriotin townChâteauChâteauChâteau de la Boursièrein townAttractionAttractionAbbaye Notre-Dame des Fontenelles3.5 km southeast, in La Roche-sur-YonChâteauChâteauLa Jusinière3.8 km east, in La Roche-sur-YonPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Venansault 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 Venansault 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venansault | 4,757 | — | A+ | B | A+ | A |
| Mouilleron-le-Captif | 5,273 | 3.9 | A+ | B− | A+ | A− |
| La Roche-sur-Yon | 54,849 | 4.6 | B− | C+ | C− | B− |
| Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux | 7,191 | 5 | A | B | A | A |
| Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups | 2,585 | 5.5 | — | B− | — | A |
| Le Poiré-sur-Vie | 8,649 | 5.6 | A+ | C+ | A | A− |
| Aizenay | 10,365 | 5.7 | A | C+ | B+ | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #2 of 46 in Vendée.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,283/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Venansault grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Venansault is a commune of 4,757 people in the Communauté d'agglomération La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération. 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.