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The town has 1,300 residents and lies in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire. Just 14% of residents are 65 or older.
Homes are affordable: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It also does well on schools — brevet results at the expected rate. Its weakest subject is walkability (C) — 86% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Work and incomes lag (C+): 0.2 jobs per working resident; 6.5% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. La Guierche 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 La Guierche does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Guierche 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.
La Guierche 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 La Guierche as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château (donjon et ruines), in Ballon-Saint Mars, 4.8 mi away.
12% 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 La Guierche.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.35/m² a month, about level with Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Sales in La Guierche from July 2023 to June 2026: 43 houses and apartments. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €10.67/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,667/m² | 43 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 14% of the town, lower than both Sarthe’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (22%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.4%. Degrees are held by 29% of adults.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| La Guierche | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For collège, the closest is 2.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean RostandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 92 | 96%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
After the care-home adjustment, La Guierche’s deaths ran at 81 per 100 expected, near Sarthe’s towns (82) and lower than compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 61 residents of La Guierche died, against 75 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 19% fewer. The nearest emergency department to La Guierche is Centre hospitalier du Mans, 7 mi away. In Sarthe, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.9 years for women and 79.9 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
The median disposable income was €26,700 a year per consumption unit, higher than Sarthe’s towns (€24,770) and near compared French towns (€25,970). 6.4% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, museums and gardens in and near La Guierche. Best known first.
Nothing in La Guierche 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 La Guierche 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Guierche | 1,300 | — | — | A | — | B+ |
| La Bazoge | 3,796 | 2.4 | A+ | A− | A+ | A− |
| Saint-Saturnin | 2,774 | 4.1 | A− | B− | D | A+ |
| La Milesse | 2,617 | 4.5 | — | B | — | B+ |
| Savigné-l'Évêque | 4,031 | 5.1 | A+ | A− | A | B− |
| Sargé-lès-le-Mans | 3,851 | 5.9 | A | B− | B− | A |
| Coulaines | 8,121 | 6.2 | C+ | B− | C− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Guierche has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.7 recorded violent incidents and 7.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A−, better than 84% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so La Guierche grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
La Guierche is a commune of 1,300 people in the Communauté de communes Maine Cœur 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.