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Some 2,047 people live in this town, in Manche, Normandy.
Gavray-sur-Sienne’s strongest subject is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying 70 m² at the median €1,417/m² takes 4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage. Walkability is its weak spot — 51% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for schools and B for jobs & income.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Gavray-sur-Sienne 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 3 things Gavray-sur-Sienne does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Gavray-sur-Sienne 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.
Gavray-sur-Sienne 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 Gavray-sur-Sienne as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Abbaye de Hambye (également sur commune de Percy), in Hambye, 3.8 mi away.
28% 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 Gavray-sur-Sienne.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 5 general practitioners in Gavray-sur-Sienne. In Manche, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.5 years for women and 79 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 312 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 247, 21% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Gavray-sur-Sienne is Centre hospitalier de Coutances, 10.6 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €1,417/m², lower than both Manche’s towns (€1,814/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Sales in Gavray-sur-Sienne from July 2023 to June 2026: 123 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,417/m² | 123 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 14%, near Manche’s towns (13%) and lower than compared French towns (17%). 7.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Degrees are held by nearly a fifth of adults.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Manche 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Gavray-sur-Sienne | Manche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Manche median and France median: the median of compared communes
6.1% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Manche’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Jobs based in Gavray-sur-Sienne number 600, against 750 residents in work (0.8 per worker). Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €24,090 a year.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 10.8 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Roland VaudatinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 47 | 85%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The police record for Gavray-sur-Sienne lists 28 offenses in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 4.2 violent offenses and 7.5 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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 · When sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (33.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Gavray-sur-Sienne is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Gavray-sur-Sienne.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gavray-sur-Sienne | 2,047 | — | — | A | — | A |
| Quettreville-sur-Sienne | 3,167 | 6.9 | — | A− | — | B |
| Percy-en-Normandie | 2,641 | 7 | — | A | — | B+ |
| Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny | 3,903 | 7.1 | B− | A− | B | C− |
| Bréhal | 3,487 | 8.2 | B | C | A− | C+ |
| Donville-les-Bains | 3,146 | 11 | C+ | D | B− | B+ |
| Coutances | 8,321 | 11 | C− | B+ | D | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Gavray-sur-Sienne has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B−, better than 51% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Gavray-sur-Sienne grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Manche, Normandy
Gavray-sur-Sienne is a commune of 2,047 people in the Communauté de communes Coutances Mer et Bocage. 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 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.