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Home to 1,294 people, this town lies in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Cost of living is its strong suit — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 18% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: nearly half of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Holiday and other second homes account for just over one in ten homes.
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. Hénansal 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.
The 2 things Hénansal does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Hénansal 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.
Hénansal has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Hénansal, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 1964.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Hénansal.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Hénansal is Centre hospitalier Yves le Foll, 14.4 mi away. 96 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 82: 18% above. Women in Côtes-d'Armor live to 84.8 on average and men to 78.5 (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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
For its 600 residents in work, Hénansal has 300 jobs: 0.5 each. The median disposable income was €25,410 a year per consumption unit, close to both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (€26,370) and compared French towns (€25,970). 7.0% of the town’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 87% drove.
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 median sale price was €2,016/m², below Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (€2,254/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. 42 houses and apartments changed hands in Hénansal from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,016/m² | 42 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town, above Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (9.3%) and close to compared French towns (11%). Over-65s are 18% of the population. Degrees are held by 25% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%.
| Hénansal | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côtes-d'Armor median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 15th century. 13% of homes date from before 1919.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.4 violent offenses and 7.1 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Of the graded crimes in Hénansal, other physical violence came up most often (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 · When family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (83.5% of the index here).
Hénansal has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Croix en granit du 15e siècle: Photo: Dolly11 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Hénansal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hénansal | 1,294 | — | — | A− | — | D− |
| Pléneuf-Val-André | 3,988 | 5.5 | A− | C− | B+ | C+ |
| Lamballe-Armor | 17,241 | 5.7 | A− | C+ | B | B− |
| Erquy | 3,974 | 6.1 | C+ | C+ | C+ | C+ |
| Val-d'Arguenon | 2,844 | 7.6 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Plancoët | 3,104 | 9.9 | B | B− | A | C |
| Hillion | 4,335 | 10 | A+ | B− | A | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Hénansal has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Hénansal grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Hénansal is a commune of 1,294 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Lamballe Terre et Mer. 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.