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Home to 2,617 people, this town lies in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Work and incomes are strong (A−): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment. Health is another plus: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,194/m² takes 6.3 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. La Milesse has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing La Milesse does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Milesse 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 Milesse has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in La Milesse as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-du-Pré, in Le Mans, 4.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Milesse.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of La Milesse have one GP on hand. Adjusted mortality locally: 80 deaths for every 100 expected. From 2016 to 2025, 160 residents of La Milesse died, against 200 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 20% 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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The jobless rate is 6.0%. Nearly one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Sarthe’s towns (10.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
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.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.35/m² a month, close to Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). 84 houses and apartments changed hands in La Milesse from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses made up 99% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,208/m² | 83 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Over-65s are a fifth of the population. People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, near Sarthe’s towns (9.9%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by 32% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| La Milesse | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 2.4 violent offenses and 8.7 graded property crimes a year. The 2025 count: 16 offenses in La Milesse. The graded crime recorded most in the town was burglary (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 family violence, other physical violence, 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, 35.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in La Milesse 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 Milesse 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 Milesse | 2,617 | — | — | B | — | B+ |
| Saint-Saturnin | 2,774 | 1 | A− | B− | D | A+ |
| La Bazoge | 3,796 | 2.5 | A+ | A− | A+ | A− |
| Coulaines | 8,121 | 4 | C+ | B− | C− | B |
| Sargé-lès-le-Mans | 3,851 | 5.1 | A | B− | B− | A |
| Le Mans | 146,249 | 5.4 | C | C+ | D | B+ |
| Allonnes | 10,739 | 6.7 | C | B | C− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Milesse has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 6 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so La Milesse grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
La Milesse is a commune of 2,617 people in the Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole. 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 4, 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.