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3,573 people call this town in Finistère, Brittany home.
Cost of living is a strength too (B+) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Most journeys need a car: nearly two thirds of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Bourg-Blanc has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Bourg-Blanc does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bourg-Blanc 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.
Bourg-Blanc has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Bourg-Blanc: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1916.
Other places to visit, family days out and heritage in and near Bourg-Blanc. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bourg-Blanc.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
82 sales of houses and apartments in Bourg-Blanc, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,178/m². Of the homes sold, 96% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,194/m² | 79 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income is €27,820 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 3.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Finistère’s towns (8.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 16th century. Among the classé monuments in Bourg-Blanc is Église Notre-Dame. 6.9% of its homes were built before 1919, above Finistère’s towns (5.6%) but below compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Bourg-Blanc records 90 deaths per 100 expected, lower than Finistère’s towns (95) and near compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 511 residents of Bourg-Blanc died, against 389 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 31% more. Life expectancy in Finistère: 84.8 years for women and 79 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. 4 GPs practise 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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
The 65-and-over age group makes up just over a fifth of residents. People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, close to Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and below compared French towns (11%). Typical age in Bourg-Blanc: 43, the median.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Bourg-Blanc | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Bourg-Blanc (2025). Police and gendarmerie recorded 14 offenses in the town in 2025. Violence against people averaged 2.5 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 4.5.
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, burglary, 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, 56.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Bourg-Blanc has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Notre-Dame: Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 3.0
2 notable people were born in Bourg-Blanc.
Laurent Ségalen: Garitan, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourg-Blanc | 3,573 | — | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Plouvien | 3,968 | 3.2 | A | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Milizac-Guipronvel | 4,816 | 3.6 | A+ | B | A+ | A− |
| Plabennec | 8,686 | 3.7 | A | C+ | A+ | C |
| Gouesnou | 6,501 | 3.9 | A | C | B | B |
| Bohars | 3,727 | 5.1 | A− | C | A− | D |
| Lannilis | 5,709 | 5.2 | A | B | A− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bourg-Blanc 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 €2,178/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bourg-Blanc grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Bourg-Blanc is a commune of 3,573 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays des Abers. 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.