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A town of 2,310 in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Hénon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 12 points below the expected rate. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Hénon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Hénon 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.
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The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Hénon, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1964.
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage and museums in and near Hénon. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Hénon.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 8.9 mi to the nearest lycée. The nearest collège is 2.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François LorantNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 87 | 79%−12 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The census found 3.7% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Hénon holds 350 jobs; 1,100 of its residents are in work, so 0.3 jobs each. Half of residents lived on more than €25,390 a year per consumption unit, in line with Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (€26,370) and compared French towns (€25,970).
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 middle sale price: €1,646/m², lower than both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (€2,254/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 68 homes in Hénon.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,646/m² | 68 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (34 places) counts its residents as Hénon’s; allowing for it, deaths were 2% above expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 194 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 237, 22% more. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Hénon is Centre hospitalier Yves le Foll, 8.1 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Côtes-d'Armor is 84.8 years for women and 78.5 for men (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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over one in ten residents, above Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. Under 15: 19% of residents. The age that splits Hénon in two is 41.6.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%.
| Hénon | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 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.
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Hénon, none of them classé, France’s highest protection. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
All told, Hénon had 13 recorded offenses in 2025. Violence against people averaged 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 6. Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was family violence (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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 50.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Hénon, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Manoir du Colombier: Photo: Crepi22 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Domaine des Granges: Photo: Crepi22 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Hénon yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Hénon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade D−, better than 2% 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 Hénon grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Hénon is a commune of 2,310 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.
