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1,600 residents make their home in this town in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire.
Schools are its strong suit (A+) — brevet results 6 points above the expected rate. At the median price of €1,875/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Anjou Loir et Sarthe. It is hard to get around without a car: 54% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. It skews young: 14% of residents are 15 to 24.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Étriché 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 Étriché 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.
Étriché has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Étriché does most differently from other towns.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Étriché counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1965.
24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Étriché has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Étriché.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For collège, the closest is 2.9 mi away. No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 11.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-François PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 100 | 100%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
One measure of family life: 20% of residents are under 15. The median resident of Étriché is 38.5 years old. 30% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Maine-et-Loire 29%, France 30%).
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Maine-et-Loire 50.9%, France 51.8%.
| Étriché | Maine-et-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 14% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 29% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Maine-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Étriché come to 77 per 100 predicted. From 2016 to 2025, 70 residents of Étriché died, against 90 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 23% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Étriché is Centre hospitalier Universitaire D Angers, 13 mi away. In Maine-et-Loire, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 81.1 (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 · 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+.
At the census, 6.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Maine-et-Loire’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Per resident in work, Étriché counts 0.3 jobs (300 jobs, 800 workers).
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.
56 sales of houses and apartments in Étriché, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,875/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,875/m² | 56 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 12th century. Among the classé monuments in Étriché is Ancien prieuré de Port-l'Abbé.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage and museums in and near Étriché. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Étriché yet.
Commune in Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire
Étriché is a commune of 1,600 people in the Communauté de communes Anjou Loir et Sarthe. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Étriché | 1,600 | — | — | A− | — | A− |
| Tiercé | 4,589 | 2.8 | A | C+ | A− | A |
| Les Hauts-d'Anjou | 8,751 | 4.6 | A | A− | B | A− |
| Morannes sur Sarthe-Daumeray | 3,687 | 5.1 | — | A | — | B+ |
| Briollay | 3,225 | 6.1 | — | C+ | — | A+ |
| Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou | 5,644 | 6.3 | A | C+ | A | A |
| Seiches-sur-le-Loir | 2,844 | 6.6 | B+ | B+ | A− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Étriché has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.4 recorded violent incidents and 7.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 99% of compared French towns. 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 €1,875/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Étriché grades A− for cost of living.
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.