Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,766 in Orne, Normandy.
Gacé has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D): brevet results 3 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €1,022/m², a 70 m² home costs 3.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 76% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Gacé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Gacé 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Gacé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1968.
Pierre Joseph Antoine Beauperrey, born in 1745, is the one person born in Gacé before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Gacé.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On this, Gacé is below both Orne’s towns (86.1%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MoulinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 58 | 76%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Gacé comes below both Orne’s towns (14%) and compared French towns (17%). 33% of residents are 65 or over.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
| Gacé | Orne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 31% | 22% |
| No diploma | 32% | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 15% | 18% |
| Higher education | 14% | 19% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Orne median and France median: the median of compared communes
For Gacé, that is below both Orne’s towns (€23,600) and compared French towns (€25,970). Gacé has 1,050 jobs for 600 working residents, 1.8 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 52 offenses in the graded categories in Gacé in 2025. Violence against people ran at 13.7 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 16 (2023–2025 average). For other physical violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 9.2% of the index here.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Half the homes sold went for more than €1,022/m², close to Orne’s towns (€1,331/m²) and below compared French towns (€2,430/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,017/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Gacé sits below both Orne’s towns (88) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 382 residents of Gacé died, against 364 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Gacé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage and museums in and near Gacé. Best known first.
Gacé has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Gacé.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gacé | 1,766 | — | — | A− | C− | B |
| Gouffern en Auge | 3,636 | 8.9 | A | A− | A− | A− |
| La Ferté-en-Ouche | 2,938 | 10 | B− | A | A− | D |
| Vimoutiers | 2,978 | 10 | C | A | C− | C |
| Sées | 4,168 | 14 | B+ | A | C− | A− |
| Argentan | 13,527 | 15 | B | A− | D | B |
| L'Aigle | 7,663 | 15 | C− | B+ | D | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade D, better than 8% 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 Gacé grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Orne, Normandy
Gacé is a commune of 1,766 people in the Communauté de communes des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault. 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.