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With 3,371 residents, it is a town in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Strong in places, weak in others. The weak point is schools: brevet results 6 points below the expected rate. With a C− overall, Saint-Cast-le-Guildo is better than 21% of compared French towns. Homes sell for a median €4,357/m²: 70 m² comes to 11.7 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Dinan Agglomération. Where it does best is jobs & income — 1.1 jobs per working resident; 9.4% unemployment. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety, B− for health and C+ for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
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 Saint-Cast-le-Guildo does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Cast-le-Guildo 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
On the Culture ministry’s list, Saint-Cast-le-Guildo counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from Antiquity; the first monument here was protected in 1938.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo.
Children under 15 make up 7.5%, lower than both Côtes-d'Armor’s towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for 4.8% of residents. Graduates make up 34% of adults.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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-Cast-le-Guildo | Côtes-d'Armor median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 7.5% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 4.8% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 11% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 50% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 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.
Its schools’ results rank #50 of 50 in Côtes-d'Armor. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.3 mi away. General-bac pupils go 8.8 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul SebillotNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 42 | 71%−6 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.
No town in Côtes-d'Armor costs more to buy into than Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, at €4,357/m², the highest of 61. The median price, €4,357/m², comes from 322 sales of houses and apartments here from July 2023 to June 2026. In Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, houses go for €4,047/m² and apartments for €4,782/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,047/m² | 192 |
| Apartments | €4,782/m² | 130 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo is Ruines romaines. The protected list starts in Antiquity. Homes built before 1919 account for 12% of the housing.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
At the census, 9.2% of working residents in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo didn’t travel to work at all. Bus, tram or train carried 2.9% of working residents in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo to work at the census. Unemployment stands at 9.4%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Among the graded crimes in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, the most frequent was burglary (2025). In all, 72 offenses reached the police record here in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.4 violent offenses and 16.3 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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, 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, 7.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. From 2016 to 2025, 645 residents of Saint-Cast-le-Guildo died, against 686 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 6% fewer. Its care home for older people (48 places) counts its residents as Saint-Cast-le-Guildo’s; allowing for it, deaths were 12% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Cast-le-Guildo is Ghre site Saint Malo Broussais, 11.2 mi away.
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.
Heritage in and near Saint-Cast-le-Guildo. Best known first.
Saint-Cast-le-Guildo has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo.
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-Cast-le-Guildo | 3,371 | — | C− | C− | B− | B− |
| Beaussais-sur-Mer | 4,498 | 5.6 | B | C− | A | B+ |
| Plancoët | 3,104 | 6.6 | B | B− | A | C |
| Val-d'Arguenon | 2,844 | 6.6 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2,768 | 6.8 | B | C− | B | B+ |
| Dinard Ille-et-Vilaine | 10,772 | 8.7 | B | C− | C− | B+ |
| Pleurtuit Ille-et-Vilaine | 7,167 | 9.1 | B+ | C | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #32 of 45 in Côtes-d'Armor. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 29 burglaries and 18 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D−, better than 2% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €4,357/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.48/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Cast-le-Guildo grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany
Saint-Cast-le-Guildo is a commune of 3,371 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Dinan 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 November 4, 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.