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1,949 residents make their home in this town in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Schools do well: brevet results 7 points above the expected rate. Homes are affordable: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The median price paid is €1,190/m².
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023. Le Grand-Lucé 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.
Each subject compares Le Grand-Lucé 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.
Le Grand-Lucé has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Le Grand-Lucé does most differently from other towns.
Le Grand-Lucé has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1993.
25% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Le Grand-Lucé has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Château de Lucé: Photo: Yodaspirine · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Grand-Lucé.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 11.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul ChevallierNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 56 | 100%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
17% of adults hold a degree. Children under 15 make up 14%, below Sarthe’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Those aged 15 to 24 account for nearly one in ten residents.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
| Le Grand-Lucé | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.01/m² a month, close to Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). From July 2023 to June 2026, 74 homes were sold in Le Grand-Lucé. Houses are advertised at an estimated €7.41/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,190/m² | 74 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €23,840 a year. Public transport took 3.2% of Le Grand-Lucé’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 5.4% of working residents in Le Grand-Lucé didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its heritage reaches back to the 18th century. Le Grand-Lucé has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Le Grand-Lucé is Centre hospitalier Montval Sur Loir, 12.3 mi away. Its two care homes for older people (155 places) count their residents as Le Grand-Lucé’s; allowing for them, deaths were 14% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 445 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 552, 24% more. 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.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Le Grand-Lucé yet.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Le Grand-Lucé is a commune of 1,949 people in the Communauté de communes Loir-Lucé-Bercé. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Grand-Lucé | 1,949 | — | — | A− | — | B |
| Parigné-l'Évêque | 5,358 | 7 | A+ | A− | A | B+ |
| Teloché | 3,067 | 8.9 | — | A− | — | B |
| Écommoy | 4,868 | 9.1 | B | A | B | B |
| Mulsanne | 5,244 | 10 | A | B | B | B+ |
| Ruaudin | 3,481 | 11 | B+ | B | B− | B |
| Laigné-Saint-Gervais | 4,252 | 11 | — | B+ | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Grand-Lucé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 8.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. With 900 jobs for 700 working residents, Le Grand-Lucé draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
They grade A+, better than 99% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Le Grand-Lucé grades A− for cost of living.
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.
