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Population 1,474: a town in Calvados, Normandy.
Buying 70 m² at the median €2,311/m² takes 6.2 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Val ès Dunes. Walkability is its strong suit — 83% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for health and C+ for jobs & income.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Saint-Sylvain 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.
Each subject compares Saint-Sylvain 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-Sylvain has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Saint-Sylvain has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
Pierre Rayer, born in 1793, is the one person born in Saint-Sylvain before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Sylvain.
The share of residents under 15 is 21%. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9.7% of residents, below both Calvados’ towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Half of Saint-Sylvain is older than 38.3, half younger.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Sylvain | Calvados median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 29% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 23% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Calvados median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Saint-Sylvain has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Saint-Sylvain holds 150 jobs; 750 of its residents are in work, so 0.2 jobs each. At the census, 4.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below both Calvados’ towns (14.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). After tax and benefits, the median income is €26,920 a year per consumption unit.
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.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Saint-Sylvain records 87 deaths per 100 expected, about level with compared French towns (88) and below Calvados’ towns (92). Saint-Sylvain has 4 family doctors. France’s death rates at each age would predict 92 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 80, 13% fewer. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Saint-Sylvain is Polyclinique du Parc Caen, 9.6 mi away.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
47 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Sylvain, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,311/m². Houses were 98% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,337/m² | 46 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Saint-Sylvain were family violence than anything else (2025). On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 5.4 violent offenses and 3.9 graded property crimes a year. Over 2025, Saint-Sylvain logged 10 recorded offenses.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, 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, 75.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Saint-Sylvain. Best known first.
Saint-Sylvain has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Sylvain.
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-Sylvain | 1,474 | — | — | B− | — | B− |
| Moult-Chicheboville | 3,441 | 4.1 | C | B− | A− | C− |
| Argences | 3,959 | 5.1 | C | B− | A− | C− |
| Bourguébus | 2,613 | 5.8 | B+ | C | A | B− |
| Mézidon Vallée d'Auge | 9,766 | 7.7 | C | B | B− | B |
| Saint-Martin-de-May | 4,529 | 7.9 | B+ | C+ | A+ | B+ |
| Ifs | 11,937 | 8.7 | B− | C− | C+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Sylvain has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,311/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Sylvain grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Calvados, Normandy
Saint-Sylvain is a commune of 1,474 people in the Communauté de communes Val ès Dunes. 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.