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The town, home to 1,717 people, lies in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 7% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It also trails on walkability: nearly three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The median home sells for €1,505/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Yvré-le-Pôlin 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 Yvré-le-Pôlin 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.
Yvré-le-Pôlin has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Yvré-le-Pôlin does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Yvré-le-Pôlin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Hilaire, in Oizé, 2.4 mi away.
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Yvré-le-Pôlin 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 Yvré-le-Pôlin.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy in Sarthe: 85.9 years for women and 79.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. France’s death rates at each age would predict 141 deaths in Yvré-le-Pôlin from 2016 to 2025; there were 151, 7% more. The nearest emergency department to Yvré-le-Pôlin is Centre Medico Chirugical du Mans, 10.4 mi away. There are 2 general practitioners locally.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
The unemployment rate comes to 7.3%. Yvré-le-Pôlin has 200 jobs for 800 working residents, 0.2 per worker. Also worth knowing: 5.1% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
The estimated advertised rent is €9.64/m² a month, close to Sarthe’s towns (€9.64/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Estimated advertised rent for houses: €8.84/m² a month. The market in Yvré-le-Pôlin: 53 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,505/m² | 53 |
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. A fifth of residents are 65 or over, below both Sarthe’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (22%). The middle age in Yvré-le-Pôlin is 43.8.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Yvré-le-Pôlin | Sarthe median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 30% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 16% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Sarthe median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage in and near Yvré-le-Pôlin. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Yvré-le-Pôlin yet.
Commune in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Yvré-le-Pôlin is a commune of 1,717 people in the Communauté de communes Sud Sarthe. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yvré-le-Pôlin | 1,717 | — | — | A− | — | D |
| Cérans-Foulletourte | 3,341 | 3.5 | A− | A− | A | B− |
| Guécélard | 3,202 | 4 | — | A− | — | A |
| Laigné-Saint-Gervais | 4,252 | 4.7 | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Moncé-en-Belin | 3,697 | 5.5 | B+ | B+ | A− | C+ |
| Écommoy | 4,868 | 5.9 | B | A | B | B |
| Roëzé-sur-Sarthe | 2,514 | 6.4 | — | A | — | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Yvré-le-Pôlin has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 7.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Yvré-le-Pôlin 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.