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710 residents make their home in this town in Orne, Normandy.
There are no grades for Moulins-la-Marche: French towns need 1,000 residents for them. Just over one in ten homes here are second homes. It skews older: 32% of residents are 65 or over.
The 2 things Moulins-la-Marche does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Moulins-la-Marche as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Couvent de la Trappe, in Soligny-la-Trappe, 4.4 mi away.
44% 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 Moulins-la-Marche.
Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24, below both Orne’s towns (9.4%) and compared French towns (11%). Ages in Moulins-la-Marche split evenly at 52.3: half are older, half younger.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
| Moulins-la-Marche | Orne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 31% | 22% |
| No diploma | 37% | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 15% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 19% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Orne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stood at 12.6%, higher than both Orne’s towns (11.0%) and compared French towns (10.1%). For its 250 residents in work, Moulins-la-Marche has 250 jobs: 1.1 each. At the census, 13.2% of working residents in Moulins-la-Marche didn’t travel to work at all.
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 10.1 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège André ColletNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 41 | 98%+12 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
House rents are put at about €7.92/m² a month. The market in Moulins-la-Marche: 29 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Moulins-la-Marche is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Moulins-la-Marche yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moulins-la-Marche | 710 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tourouvre au Perche | 2,955 | 8.4 | A− | A | A | C+ |
| Mortagne-au-Perche | 3,898 | 9.7 | B | A | C+ | C+ |
| L'Aigle | 7,663 | 10 | C− | B+ | D | C+ |
| La Ferté-en-Ouche | 2,938 | 14 | B− | A | A− | D |
| Sées | 4,168 | 14 | B+ | A | C− | A− |
| Longny les Villages | 2,811 | 16 | B+ | A | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Commune in Orne, Normandy
Moulins-la-Marche is a commune of 710 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) · 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.