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The median price paid is €1,000/m². A town of 1,006 in Orne, Normandy.
Housing is within reach (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents are healthier than most (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The weak point is jobs & income (D) — 1.2 jobs per working resident; 16.9% unemployment. The median price paid is €1,000/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, INSEE census 2023. Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe 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.
Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Trois menhirs dits les croûtes, in Échauffour, 1.3 mi away.
23% 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 Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €9.04/m² a month, near Orne’s towns (€8.77/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A home here costs 3 years of the median income in Communauté de communes des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault. Houses are advertised at an estimated €8.41/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €979/m² | 62 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Under-15s account for 13% of the population. 9% of the population is aged 15 to 24, near Orne’s towns (9.4%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). Among adults, 10% have a degree.
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.
| Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe | Orne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 36% | 31% | 22% |
| No diploma | 38% | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 15% | 18% |
| Higher education | 10% | 19% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Orne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe is Centre hospitalier de L Aigle, 9.1 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 126 residents of Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe died, against 160 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% fewer. Also worth knowing: at birth, a girl in Orne can expect 84.6 years and a boy 79.6 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. One GP practises locally.
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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Half of residents lived on more than €21,500 a year per consumption unit, below both Orne’s towns (€23,600) and compared French towns (€25,970). 9.8% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe were other physical violence than anything else (2025). Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 10.8 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 18. Police and gendarmerie recorded 33 offenses in the town in 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 family 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 (26.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe 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 Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe | 1,006 | — | — | A | — | A− |
| L'Aigle | 7,663 | 9.5 | C− | B+ | D | C+ |
| La Ferté-en-Ouche | 2,938 | 10 | B− | A | A− | D |
| Tourouvre au Perche | 2,955 | 12 | A− | A | A | C+ |
| Sées | 4,168 | 14 | B+ | A | C− | A− |
| Mortagne-au-Perche | 3,898 | 14 | B | A | C+ | C+ |
| Gouffern en Auge | 3,636 | 16 | A | A− | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,000/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Orne, Normandy
Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe is a commune of 1,006 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 November 9, 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.