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A town of 4,602 in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Plaintel has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−): 56% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,148/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Brieuc Armor Agglomération.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Plaintel does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plaintel 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.
Plaintel has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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On the Culture ministry’s list, Plaintel counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1963.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plaintel.
The census found 3.9% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Plaintel has 2,100 jobs for 2,050 working residents, 1 per worker. At the census, 3.8% of working residents in Plaintel didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Plaintel is Centre hospitalier Yves le Foll, 6.3 mi away. Its care home for older people (60 places) counts its residents as Plaintel’s; allowing for it, deaths were 3% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 433 residents of Plaintel died, against 382 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% more. Also worth knowing: average lifespans in Côtes-d'Armor: 84.8 years for women, 78.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Plaintel is Menhir dit du Petit Vauridel. Protection here reaches back to prehistory. The pre-1919 share of homes is 9.9%.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,148/m²: 127 houses and apartments sold in Plaintel between July 2023 and June 2026. Of the homes sold, 98% were houses. Houses are advertised at an estimated €9.73/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,148/m² | 125 |
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. Children under 15 make up 19%, above both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%). The median resident of Plaintel is 41.8 years old.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%.
| Plaintel | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Côtes-d'Armor median and France median: the median of compared communes
Of the graded crimes in Plaintel, sexual violence came up most often (2025). In all, 30 offenses reached the police record in the town in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 3.2 (2023–2025 average).
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 family violence, other physical 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, 25.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Plaintel has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Menhir dit du Petit Vauridel: Photo: Crepi22 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Plaintel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaintel | 4,602 | — | — | C+ | — | C |
| Plédran | 6,933 | 4.1 | A− | B+ | A | B− |
| Quintin | 2,739 | 4.3 | A | B | B | A− |
| Plœuc-L'Hermitage | 4,103 | 5.2 | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Ploufragan | 11,507 | 5.7 | B− | B− | B | C+ |
| Trégueux | 8,450 | 6.1 | B− | B− | B− | C+ |
| Quessoy | 3,969 | 7.2 | — | B+ | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Plaintel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,148/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.94/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Plaintel grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Plaintel is a commune of 4,602 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Brieuc Armor Agglomération. 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.