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Population 3,481: a town in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Jobs & income is its strong suit: 1.2 jobs per working resident; 6.6% unemployment. Taken together, its subjects give Ruaudin a B+ overall, better than 68% of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #20 of 31 in Sarthe. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,025/m² takes 5.8 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine Le Mans Métropole. Pupils here do less well than most: brevet results 1.6 points below the expected rate. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for safety, B for health and B for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Ruaudin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ruaudin 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ruaudin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye de l'Epau, in Yvré-l'Évêque, 3.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ruaudin.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.4 mi to the nearest one. There is no general lycée within 5 km; one lies 3.2 mi away. Its collèges and lycées rank #29 of 34 in Sarthe on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège BolléeNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 81 | 96%+4 pts |
| Collège Joséphine BakerBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 60 | 67%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, close to Sarthe’s towns (26%) and above compared French towns (22%). Among adults, 29% have a degree. Typical age in Ruaudin: 48.9, the median.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Ruaudin | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Ruaudin can choose among 3 GPs. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Ruaudin’s; allowing for it, deaths were 15% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 426 residents of Ruaudin died, against 405 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% more. Also worth knowing: life expectancy at birth in Sarthe is 85.9 years for women and 79.9 for men (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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Of those in the labour force, 6.6% are unemployed. At the census, 7.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Sarthe’s towns (10.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike.
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.
95 sales of houses and apartments in Ruaudin, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,025/m². Of the homes sold, 88% were houses. From July 2023 to June 2026, 95 homes were sold locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,094/m² | 84 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
2025 saw 68 offenses recorded in Ruaudin. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 6.1 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 14.8. The commonest graded crime locally was family violence (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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 5.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums, heritage and gardens in and near Ruaudin. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des 24 Heures du Mans4.4 km west, in Le Mans
GardenArboretum de la Grand Prée3.1 km northwest, in Le MansChâteauChâteauChâteau des Hunaudières3.1 km west, in MulsanneChâteauChâteauLa Sauvagère2.6 km north, in ChangéMuseumMuseumMaison de la Forêt (Arche de la Nature)4.9 km north, in ChangéPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Ruaudin 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 Ruaudin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruaudin | 3,481 | — | B+ | B | B− | B |
| Mulsanne | 5,244 | 2.3 | A | B | B | B+ |
| Changé | 6,911 | 2.8 | B+ | B+ | B | A− |
| Arnage | 5,445 | 3.6 | B | B+ | C+ | B+ |
| Teloché | 3,067 | 3.8 | — | A− | — | B |
| Parigné-l'Évêque | 5,358 | 4.3 | A+ | A− | A | B+ |
| Moncé-en-Belin | 3,697 | 4.3 | B+ | B+ | A− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #18 of 31 in Sarthe. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 20 burglaries and 19 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 23% of compared French towns and #29 of 34 in Sarthe. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,025/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ruaudin grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Ruaudin is a commune of 3,481 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 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.