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Population 3,019: a town in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Schools do well: brevet results 2 points above the expected rate. Jobs and pay hold up well: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 7.1% unemployment. Its lowest grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is hard to get around without a car: 52% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Louannec has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Louannec does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Louannec 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.
Louannec has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Louannec; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1930.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Louannec. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Louannec.
Children under 15 make up just over one in ten residents. 7% of residents are 15 to 24, below both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). Graduates make up 42% of adults.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Louannec | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 14% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 39% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côtes-d'Armor median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Schools rank #3 of 50 in Côtes-d'Armor. General-bac pupils go 4.4 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.4 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège les Sept IlesNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 92 | 99%+2 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.
Renting a house costs an estimated €10.92/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 80 homes were sold in Louannec. The estimated advertised rent is €12.04/m² a month, above Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (€11.30/m²) and close to compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,777/m² | 75 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 7.1%, lower than both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%). 4.5% of Louannec’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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
378 deaths in Louannec between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 402: 6% below. 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. There is one general practitioner in the town.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 13th century. 7% of its homes were built before 1919, lower than both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Louannec; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Manoir de Barac'h: Photo: Crepi22 · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Louannec.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louannec | 3,019 | — | — | C | — | B |
| Perros-Guirec | 7,336 | 2.5 | A− | C− | A | C+ |
| Lannion | 20,315 | 4.4 | B− | C | C+ | C |
| Trégastel | 2,524 | 4.7 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Pleumeur-Bodou | 3,848 | 5.2 | B− | C | A+ | C+ |
| Penvénan | 2,584 | 5.6 | — | C | — | C |
| Ploubezre | 3,780 | 6.4 | B+ | A− | A+ | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Louannec has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.4 recorded violent incidents and 5.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 94% of compared French towns and #3 of 50 in Côtes-d'Armor. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Louannec grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Louannec is a commune of 3,019 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Lannion-Trégor Communauté. 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.
