Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,523 in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Vibraye has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. At the median price of €1,253/m², a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille. Its strongest is schools (A+): brevet results 11 points above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Vibraye does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Vibraye 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.
Vibraye has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Vibraye as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Pierre, in Lavaré, 4.3 mi away.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vibraye.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On school results, the town ranks #1 of 34 in Sarthe. At the collèges within 5 km of Vibraye, 91.0% passed the brevet, above both Sarthe’s towns (89.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%). The closest lycée for the general bac is 9.7 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Gabriel GoussaultNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 67 | 91%+11 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 median price, €1,253/m², comes from 94 sales of houses and apartments in Vibraye from July 2023 to June 2026. Renting a house costs an estimated €7.10/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,253/m² | 94 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 14% of residents. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9% of residents, below both Sarthe’s towns (9.9%) and compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by 16% of adults.
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.
| Vibraye | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 31% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 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.
Vibraye has 3 family doctors. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Vibraye come to 79 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 473 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 436, 8% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Vibraye is Centre hospitalier St Calais, 9.7 mi away.
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.
1,050 jobs are based in Vibraye, for 950 working residents (1.1 per worker). Of those in the labour force, 8.0% are unemployed. At the census, 3.6% of working residents in Vibraye didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
60 offenses were reported in Vibraye during 2025. Violence against people averaged 2.4 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 14.2. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes locally.
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 and vehicle theft, 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, 25.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Vibraye is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Vibraye.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vibraye | 2,523 | — | — | A+ | — | B+ |
| Cherré-Au | 2,758 | 9 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Saint-Calais | 2,948 | 9.5 | B | A+ | C | C+ |
| La Ferté-Bernard | 8,740 | 9.8 | B+ | A− | C− | A− |
| Connerré | 2,780 | 11 | B+ | A− | C | B− |
| Val-au-Perche Orne | 3,336 | 15 | A | A | B | A− |
| Montfort-le-Gesnois | 2,939 | 15 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Vibraye has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 38 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A+, better than 98% of compared French towns and #1 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 €1,253/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Vibraye grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Vibraye is a commune of 2,523 people in the Communauté de communes des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille. 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.