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2,483 residents make their home in this town in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Schools are its strong suit — brevet results 3 points above the expected rate. Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest subject is jobs & income — 0.2 jobs per working resident; 8.5% unemployment. Walkability is weaker too: 59% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Saint-Mars-d'Outillé 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 Saint-Mars-d'Outillé 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.
Saint-Mars-d'Outillé has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Saint-Mars-d'Outillé does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Manoir de la Poissonnière, in Saint-Ouen-en-Belin, 6.3 mi away.
23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.8 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Jean-Baptiste de la Salle PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 157 | 97%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €9.64/m² a month, near Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses are advertised at an estimated €7.83/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 73 homes were sold in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,452/m² | 73 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graduates make up just over a fifth of adults. People 65 and over make up 16% of the town, lower than both Sarthe’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Saint-Mars-d'Outillé by age and the one in the middle is 39.6.
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Mars-d'Outillé | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 36% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment runs at 8.5%. No commute at all: 5.2% of working residents in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé at the census. The median disposable income was €25,350 a year per consumption unit, close to 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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
One GP practises in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Mars-d'Outillé is Centre Medico Chirugical du Mans, 8.2 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 144 residents of Saint-Mars-d'Outillé died, against 173 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% fewer. 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A.
3 notable people were born in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Saint-Mars-d'Outillé is a commune of 2,483 people in the Communauté de communes du Sud Est Manceau. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Mars-d'Outillé | 2,483 | — | — | A | — | B |
| Teloché | 3,067 | 2.9 | — | A− | — | B |
| Écommoy | 4,868 | 4 | B | A | B | B |
| Parigné-l'Évêque | 5,358 | 4.7 | A+ | A− | A | B+ |
| Mulsanne | 5,244 | 4.7 | A | B | B | B+ |
| Laigné-Saint-Gervais | 4,252 | 5.2 | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Ruaudin | 3,481 | 5.9 | B+ | B | B− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Mars-d'Outillé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.4 recorded violent incidents and 3.3 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 93% 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 Saint-Mars-d'Outillé 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.