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A town of 14,425 in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Plérin grades B− overall: better than 49% of compared French towns, and #33 of 45 in Côtes-d'Armor. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is jobs & income (A): 1.6 jobs per working resident; 9.7% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Plérin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plérin 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 2 historic monuments in Plérin, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Wikidata records 5 people born in Plérin before 1900, the earliest Jean-Olivier Briand, in 1715.
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Plérin. Best known first.
MuseumMusée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Brieuc3 km south, in Saint-Brieuc
AttractionVilla Rohannec'h2.1 km southeast, in Saint-BrieucAttractionAttractionMaisons Anciennes au Port du Léguéin townAttractionAttractionAncien grenier à selin townArt galleryArt galleryGalerie d'art Josset Robertin townPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plérin.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The split in Plérin: €2,613/m² for houses, €2,974/m² for apartments. Houses accounted for 82% of sales, apartments for the rest. House rents are put at about €10.20/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,613/m² | 471 |
| Apartments | €2,974/m² | 106 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 28% of the town, close to Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (29%) and above compared French towns (22%). One measure of family life: 14% of residents are under 15. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
| Plérin | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 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’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Plérin; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
At the census, 9.0% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Unemployment stood at 9.7%, about level with both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%).
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.
Its care home for older people (87 places) counts its residents as Plérin’s; allowing for it, deaths were 10% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 1,570 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,489, 5% fewer. At birth, a girl in Côtes-d'Armor can expect 84.8 years and a boy 78.5 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. The town has 15 family doctors.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 90% passed the bac pro, of 519 candidates at 5 lycées. At the lycées within 5 km of Plérin, 94.6% passed the bac, below Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (96.1%) but above compared French towns (92.9%). Schools rank #38 of 50 in Côtes-d'Armor.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Pierre PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 97 | 100%+3 pts |
| Lycée Eugène FreyssinetNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 185 | 96%−2 pts |
| Collège Saint-Yves La Salle PrivateBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 45 | 96%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Recorded offenses in Plérin came to 327 in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 17.4 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 5.2 (2023–2025 average). This Côtes-d'Armor town has 9,450 jobs for 5,850 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. The commonest graded crime here was criminal damage (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 armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (0.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Plérin, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Viaduc de Souzain: Photo: Archives AMENO · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Vieille croix: Photo: Travail personnel · CC BY-SA 3.0
9 notable people were born in Plérin.
Jean-Olivier Briand: Attributed to Louis-Chrétien de Heer (1760-before 1808), Public domain · Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain · Charles de Lorgeril: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
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| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plérin | 14,425 | — | B− | C | B− | C+ |
| Saint-Brieuc | 44,364 | 1.9 | C | B | D | C |
| Pordic | 7,454 | 3.5 | A− | C | A+ | C |
| Langueux | 7,939 | 3.6 | B− | C+ | C+ | B− |
| Ploufragan | 11,507 | 3.6 | B− | B− | B | C+ |
| Trégueux | 8,450 | 3.8 | B− | B− | B− | C+ |
| Hillion | 4,335 | 5.5 | A+ | B− | A | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #34 of 45 in Côtes-d'Armor. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 53 burglaries and 134 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 45% of compared French towns and #38 of 50 in Côtes-d'Armor. 96% of 185 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Eugène Freyssinet in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.20/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Plérin grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Plérin is a commune of 14,425 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.
