Prices are modest for what you get (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for health, B for jobs & income and B− for walkability. Holiday and other second homes account for 10% of homes. Homes go for a median €978/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Rives d'Andaine has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Rives d'Andaine 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.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Rives d'Andaine.
HousingCost of living A
Renting in Rives d'Andaine costs an estimated advertised €9.70/m² a month, against €8.77/m² in Orne’s towns and €12.41/m² in compared French towns
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Rives d'Andaine is the second cheapest of the 20 towns in Orne, at €978/m². From July 2023 to June 2026, 115 homes were sold locally. Among the homes sold, 99% were houses.
€978/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Rives d'Andaine€978/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Orne median€1,331/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€979/m²
114
€9.70/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.25 to €12.96/m² a month)
2.8
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€7.04/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€24,660
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Andaine - Passais
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Fewer children live in Rives d'Andaine than in Orne’s towns or compared French towns: 12% are under 15
14% of adults hold a degree, below Orne’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. Over-65s are 31% of the population. Rives d'Andaine has a median age of 54.6.
54.6median age
Rives d'AndaineOrne medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
31%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma33%
CAP or BEP34%
Baccalauréat14%
Higher education14%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Orne 52.7%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Orne median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Rives d'Andaine keeps more of its old housing than Orne’s towns or compared French towns: 28% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its heritage reaches back to the 16th century. The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Rives d'Andaine, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Work & commuteJobs & income B
Rives d'Andaine has 2.0 jobs for every resident in work
2,200 jobs are based in Rives d'Andaine, for 1,100 working residents (2 per worker). The median disposable income was €25,050 a year per consumption unit, higher than Orne’s towns (€23,600) and near compared French towns (€25,970). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how just over one in ten commuters travelled at the census.
11%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving80%
On foot8%
Motorbike or scooter3%
Bicycle2%
Public transport1%
2,200
jobs based in Rives d'Andaine, 2 per working resident
10.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€25,050
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
6%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 47% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth B−
Rives d'Andaine’s death rate, adjusted for age and care homes, is lower than in 52% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Rives d'Andaine is Centre hospitalier les Andaines, 6.6 mi away. Its two care homes for older people (179 places) count their residents as Rives d'Andaine’s; allowing for them, deaths were 13% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 644 residents of Rives d'Andaine died, against 529 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 22% more. At birth, a girl in Orne can expect 84.6 years and a boy 79.6 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
−13%deaths against expected, after care homesB−Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw122
Adjusted87
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Rives d'Andaine · 2.5 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
6.6 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier les Andaines
15.8 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Jacques Monod Flers
84.6 · 79.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Orne, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Rives d'Andaine
Is Rives d'Andaine safe?
Rives d'Andaine has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.9 recorded violent incidents and 8.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
Is Rives d'Andaine expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Rives d'Andaine grades A for cost of living.
About Rives d'Andaine
Commune in Orne, Normandy
Rives d'Andaine is a commune of 2,844 people in the Communauté de communes Andaine - Passais. 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
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.
