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A town of 1,254 in Orne, Normandy.
Aube has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.9 jobs per working resident; 15.3% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Aube does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Aube 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 1 historic monument in Aube: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1982.
Pierre Louis Lecarpentier de Chailloué, born in 1736, is the one person born in Aube before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Aube.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Orne, life expectancy at birth reaches 84.6 years for women and 79.6 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. From 2016 to 2025, 296 residents of Aube died, against 209 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 41% more. The nearest emergency department to Aube is Centre hospitalier de L Aigle, 3.6 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €9.04/m² a month, about level with Orne’s towns (€8.77/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Estimated advertised rent for houses: €8.41/m² a month. The market in Aube: 58 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,435/m² | 58 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
32% of residents are 65 or over, close to Orne’s towns (31%) and above compared French towns (22%). The share of residents under 15 is 14%. Aube has a median age of 53.2.
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Orne 52.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Aube | Orne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 31% | 22% |
| No diploma | 33% | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 15% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 19% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Orne median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 18th century. Among the classé monuments in Aube is Ancienne forge.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
At the census, 6.0% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below both Orne’s towns (14.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Median disposable income comes to €22,640 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Aube’s tally for 2025: 19 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 7.5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 6.8 (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
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 other physical violence, 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 (47.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Aube. Best known first.
Aube has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ancienne forge: Photo: Ikmo-ned · CC BY-SA 4.0
4 notable people were born in Aube.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aube | 1,254 | — | — | A− | — | D |
| L'Aigle | 7,663 | 4 | C− | B+ | D | C+ |
| La Ferté-en-Ouche | 2,938 | 7.9 | B− | A | A− | D |
| Tourouvre au Perche | 2,955 | 11 | A− | A | A | C+ |
| Mortagne-au-Perche | 3,898 | 15 | B | A | C+ | C+ |
| Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton Eure | 7,193 | 17 | C− | B | C− | D |
| Longny les Villages | 2,811 | 18 | B+ | A | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Aube has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Aube grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Orne, Normandy
Aube is a commune of 1,254 people in the Communauté de communes des Pays de L'Aigle. 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.