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A town of 1,427 in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Dollon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 10.9% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Dollon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Dollon 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.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Dollon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Pierre, in Lavaré, 2.9 mi away.
26% 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 Dollon.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.36/m² a month, about level with Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses are advertised at an estimated €7.36/m² a month. Sales in Dollon from July 2023 to June 2026: 59 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,250/m² | 59 |
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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 150 deaths in Dollon from 2016 to 2025; there were 147, 2% fewer. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Dollon come to 98 per 100 predicted. The nearest emergency department to Dollon is Ch Paul Chapron, 10.9 mi away. In Sarthe, women can expect to live 85.9 years and men 79.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
Unemployment runs at 10.9%. The median disposable income is €24,670 a year per consumption unit. 5.1% of Dollon’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up nearly a quarter of the town, below Sarthe’s towns (26%) but above compared French towns (22%). The age that splits Dollon in two is 46.1. Aged 15 to 24: 10% of residents.
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Dollon | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
More of the graded crimes in Dollon were criminal damage than anything else (2025). The town’s tally for 2025: 22 recorded offenses. Violence against people averaged 6 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 9.6.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 53.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Dollon. Best known first.
Nothing in Dollon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Dollon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dollon | 1,427 | — | — | A | — | C |
| Connerré | 2,780 | 4.7 | B+ | A− | C | B− |
| Vibraye | 2,523 | 7.1 | — | A+ | — | B+ |
| Montfort-le-Gesnois | 2,939 | 8.2 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Saint-Mars-la-Brière | 2,681 | 9.7 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Cherré-Au | 2,758 | 10 | — | A− | — | A− |
| La Ferté-Bernard | 8,740 | 11 | B+ | A− | C− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Dollon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Dollon grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Dollon is a commune of 1,427 people in the Communauté de communes des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille. 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.