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A town of 3,202 in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Guécélard has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−): 70% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €1,874/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes du Val de Sarthe. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 26% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Guécélard does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Guécélard 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.
Guécélard has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Guécélard as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Manoir de la Beunêche, in Roëzé-sur-Sarthe, 1.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Guécélard.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Guécélard is Centre Medico Chirugical du Mans, 7.3 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 223 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 164, 26% fewer. At birth, a girl in Sarthe can expect 85.9 years and a boy 79.9 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
For its 1,400 residents in work, Guécélard has 300 jobs: 0.2 each. On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 2.9% of commuters travelled at the census. The median disposable income was €27,470 a year per consumption unit, higher than both Sarthe’s towns (€24,770) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,874/m²: 74 houses and apartments sold in Guécélard between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,874/m² | 74 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9% of residents, lower than both Sarthe’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%). 22% of residents have reached 65. Typical age in Guécélard: 43.2, the median.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Guécélard | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
Of the graded crimes in Guécélard, burglary came up most often (2025). For 2025, the figures show 29 offenses locally. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.4 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 6.9.
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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 27.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, family days out and other places to visit in and near Guécélard. Best known first.
Nothing in Guécélard 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 Guécélard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guécélard | 3,202 | — | — | A− | — | A |
| Spay | 2,808 | 3.1 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Moncé-en-Belin | 3,697 | 3.3 | B+ | B+ | A− | C+ |
| Roëzé-sur-Sarthe | 2,514 | 3.3 | — | A | — | B+ |
| Laigné-Saint-Gervais | 4,252 | 4.1 | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Arnage | 5,445 | 4.4 | B | B+ | C+ | B+ |
| Cérans-Foulletourte | 3,341 | 4.5 | A− | A− | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Guécélard has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,874/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Guécélard grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Guécélard is a commune of 3,202 people in the Communauté de communes du Val de Sarthe. 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.