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A town in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, home to 2,169 people.
Jobs and pay hold up well: 2.4 jobs per working resident; 8.0% unemployment. Its weakest is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 7% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car: 72% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,002/m²: 70 m² comes to 5.7 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Guingamp-Paimpol Agglomération de l'Armor à l'Argoat.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saint-Agathon 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 3 things Saint-Agathon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Agathon 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.
Saint-Agathon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Saint-Agathon has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1958.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Agathon.
Children under 15 make up 15%, near Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (15%) and lower than compared French towns (17%). The middle age in Saint-Agathon is 51. Aged 15 to 24: one in ten residents.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
| Saint-Agathon | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 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.
The town’s pupils have a collège 1.3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jacques PrévertNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 80 | 95%+3 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 192 | 94%−4 pts |
| Lycée Montbareil PrivateBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 77 | 99%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
8.0% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (9.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 3.5% of working residents in Saint-Agathon 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.
From 2016 to 2025, 392 residents of Saint-Agathon died, against 325 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% more. Adjusted mortality locally: 93 deaths for every 100 expected. Life expectancy in Côtes-d'Armor: 84.8 years for women and 78.5 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. One GP practises locally.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Saint-Agathon is Groupe de cinq stèles gauloises. Homes from before 1919 make up 7.6% of the total, below Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (10%) and close to compared French towns (7.4%).
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.
74 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Agathon, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,002/m². The sales split: 89% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,897/m² | 66 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Saint-Agathon show 38 offenses in 2025. The town has 2,000 jobs for 850 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. Violence against people ran at 4.1 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 12.3 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 28.7% 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.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Saint-Agathon. Best known first.
Saint-Agathon has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Groupe de cinq stèles gauloises: Photo: Crepi22 · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Saint-Agathon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Agathon | 2,169 | — | — | B− | — | C+ |
| Ploumagoar | 5,414 | 1.5 | B+ | B− | A− | D |
| Pabu | 2,771 | 1.6 | B+ | B | B | D− |
| Guingamp | 7,111 | 1.8 | C+ | B− | D− | B− |
| Grâces | 2,601 | 2.7 | B+ | B | B+ | C− |
| Châtelaudren-Plouagat | 3,974 | 6.2 | A | B | A | B− |
| Plélo | 3,344 | 8.4 | — | B+ | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Agathon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 21 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 71% of compared French towns. 94% of 192 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Notre-Dame in 2025, 4 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,002/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Agathon grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Saint-Agathon is a commune of 2,169 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Guingamp-Paimpol Agglomération de l'Armor à l'Argoat. 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.