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This town in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire has a population of 2,195. Over-65s are 36% of the population.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. People here tend to be in good health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 22% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The weak point is jobs & income: 2.6 jobs per working resident; 18.7% unemployment. It also trails on safety (C) — an average of 5.2 recorded violent incidents and 20.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior). Sillé-le-Guillaume 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 Sillé-le-Guillaume 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.
Sillé-le-Guillaume has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 3 things Sillé-le-Guillaume does most differently from other towns.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Sillé-le-Guillaume counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
28% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Wikidata records 3 people born in Sillé-le-Guillaume before 1900, the earliest Arsène-Marie Le Feuvre, in 1863.
Explore the history →The list names few of Sillé-le-Guillaume’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sillé-le-Guillaume.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €8.76/m² a month, below Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 104 homes in Sillé-le-Guillaume. Of the homes sold, 97% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,020/m² | 101 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 14%, below both Sarthe’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 9.1% of the town. Line up the people of Sillé-le-Guillaume by age and the one in the middle is 54.9.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
| Sillé-le-Guillaume | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 36% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 36% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 11% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
At the census, 20.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Half of residents lived on more than €22,320 a year per consumption unit, below 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.
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. Sillé-le-Guillaume has 7 family doctors. Also worth knowing: its two care homes for older people (195 places) count their residents as Sillé-le-Guillaume’s; allowing for them, deaths were 22% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 563 residents of Sillé-le-Guillaume died, against 503 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 12% more.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
The commonest graded crime in Sillé-le-Guillaume was criminal damage (2025). Police and gendarmerie figures for Sillé-le-Guillaume show 60 offenses in 2025. This Sarthe town has 1,650 jobs for 600 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work.
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 sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 15.7% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Sillé-le-Guillaume is 91.0%, below both Sarthe’s towns (92.7%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Coeur de Marie PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 65 | 94%+5 pts |
| Lycée Paul ScarronNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 97 | 91%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, family days out and other places to visit in and near Sillé-le-Guillaume. Best known first.
4 notable people were born in Sillé-le-Guillaume.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Sillé-le-Guillaume is a commune of 2,195 people in the Communauté de communes de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sillé-le-Guillaume | 2,195 | — | — | A+ | C | A− |
| Fresnay-sur-Sarthe | 2,928 | 12 | B+ | A+ | B | B+ |
| Évron Mayenne | 8,252 | 13 | A+ | A | B | B+ |
| Villaines-la-Juhel Mayenne | 2,671 | 13 | A+ | A+ | A− | B− |
| La Bazoge | 3,796 | 14 | A+ | A− | A+ | A− |
| La Milesse | 2,617 | 15 | — | B | — | B+ |
| Saint-Saturnin | 2,774 | 16 | A− | B− | D | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 31 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 47% 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 Sillé-le-Guillaume 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 9, 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.