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It skews older: 28% of residents are 65 or over. 2,127 residents make their home in this town in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Bouloire’s schools beat most: brevet results 5 points above the expected rate. A 70 m² home at the median €1,429/m² costs 3.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Le Gesnois Bilurien. Work and incomes lag: 1 job per working resident; 10.3% unemployment. The rest of its grades are middling: B for safety and B− for walkability.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Bouloire 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 3 things Bouloire does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bouloire 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.
Bouloire has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Bouloire; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1926.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bouloire.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest general lycée is 15 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Guillaume ApollinaireNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 87 | 93%+5 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.
The median price, €1,429/m², comes from 91 sales of houses and apartments in Bouloire from July 2023 to June 2026. Advertised rents are estimated at €10.07/m² a month, about level with Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Renting a house costs an estimated €7.51/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,429/m² | 91 |
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.
Life expectancy in Sarthe: 85.9 years for women and 79.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 283 deaths in Bouloire from 2016 to 2025; there were 244, 14% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Bouloire is Centre hospitalier St Calais, 9.6 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Bouloire can choose among 2 GPs.
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 care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Over-65s are 28% of the population. The middle age in Bouloire is 47. A tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, about level with Sarthe’s towns (9.9%) and below compared French towns (11%).
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Bouloire | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 16th century. Before 1919: that is when 14% of homes were built.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 38 offenses in Bouloire in 2025. Violence against people ran at 11.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 8.9 (2023–2025 average). The graded crime recorded most in the town was other physical violence (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 · For sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 16.3% of the index here. As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
At the census, 8.5% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Sarthe’s towns (10.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). The jobless rate is 10.3%. Bouloire has 750 jobs for 800 working residents, 1 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and family days out in and near Bouloire. Best known first.
Bouloire has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château (ancien): Photo: Yodaspirine · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bouloire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouloire | 2,127 | — | — | A− | B | A− |
| Connerré | 2,780 | 6.5 | B+ | A− | C | B− |
| Montfort-le-Gesnois | 2,939 | 8.5 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Saint-Mars-la-Brière | 2,681 | 8.9 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Parigné-l'Évêque | 5,358 | 9.3 | A+ | A− | A | B+ |
| Saint-Calais | 2,948 | 9.6 | B | A+ | C | C+ |
| Vibraye | 2,523 | 11 | — | A+ | — | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 10 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 92% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,429/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Bouloire grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Bouloire is a commune of 2,127 people in the Communauté de communes Le Gesnois Bilurien. 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.