Find your town in Orne
Orne has 381 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 20 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 42 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Orne is like
The median ranked town in Orne grades highest on cost of living and walkability against towns across France, and lowest on jobs & income. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
8 of 19 (42%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
Every town ranked by scoreThe full list for Orne, with what drives each gradeDépartement report cardHow Orne compares with France’s other départements, subject by subjectCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subjectFind a town that’s…
19 towns · ordered by Orne rank
6 of these towns have a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of their index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
Towns without an overall grade
Each has its page and the subject grades it has. In France an overall grade needs a Safety Grade, and five graded subjects in all.
361 smaller towns and villages in Orne
With the 20 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 381 communes of Orne, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
319 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Orne
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Orne
What is the best place to live in Orne?
Tinchebray-Bocage ranks first of 19 graded towns of 2,500 or more: cost of living (A+) and schools (A+) are its strongest grades; jobs & income (C) is its lowest. Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie and Domfront en Poiraie follow.
How do the biggest towns in Orne grade?
Alençon (25,490 people) grades C overall, with its best grade in walkability. Flers (14,432 people) grades B− overall, with its best grade in cost of living.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Orne, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Orne on TownRatings?
Yes: all 381 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 20 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 42 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 319 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Why isn’t my town ranked?
The ranking covers towns of 2,500 or more with an overall grade. Rives d'Andaine has no overall grade; its page shows the grades it has, and why.
Photos: Tinchebray-Bocage, hamon jp (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie, Peter Curbishley from flickr.com - https://www.flickr.com/p… (CC BY 2.0) · Domfront en Poiraie, Thesupermat (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Athis-Val de Rouvre, Ikmo-ned (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Saint-Georges-des-Groseillers, Ikmo-ned (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Val-au-Perche, Profdocdubellay (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Gouffern en Auge, Bauverraes (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Tourouvre au Perche, Commune de Tourouvre-Au-Perche (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sées, Ikmo-ned (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis, GO69 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Longny les Villages, Campiana (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Argentan, Benoit-caen (CC BY-SA 4.0) · La Ferté Macé, Arnradigue (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Mortagne-au-Perche, Alonso de Mendoza (CC BY-SA 4.0) · La Ferté-en-Ouche, Astérixobélix (Public domain) · Flers, Franck devedjian (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Alençon, Patrick2crj (CC BY 4.0) · Vimoutiers, Zandcee (CC BY-SA 4.0) · L'Aigle, René Dinkel (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.