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Cléden-Cap-SizunFinistère

The town, home to 916 people, lies in Finistère, Brittany.

Is Cléden-Cap-Sizun a good place to live?

Cléden-Cap-Sizun is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents. Holiday and other second homes account for 39% of homes. People aged 65 and over make up 48% of residents.

What makes Cléden-Cap-Sizun stand out

The 2 things Cléden-Cap-Sizun does most differently from other towns.

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Chapelle de Saint-They
Chapelle de Saint-They · Classé · Photo: Heinrich Stürzl · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cléden-Cap-Sizun’s story

Cléden-Cap-Sizun in pictures

Cléden-Cap-Sizun has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 2 inscrit, the second level.

The oldest protected part dates from Antiquity; the first monument here was protected in 1914.

29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1914First protected: Chapelle de Saint-They
  • 2000Most recently protected: Site gallo-romain de Trouguer
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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cléden-Cap-Sizun.

Who lives here

Cléden-Cap-Sizun has fewer young adults than Finistère’s towns or compared French towns: 4.7% are 15 to 24

People 65 and over make up 48% of the town, above Finistère’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. Children are 8% of the town. Line up the people of Cléden-Cap-Sizun by age and the one in the middle is 63.7.

63.7median age
Cléden-Cap-SizunFinistère medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma15%
CAP or BEP29%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education29%

Women and men · all residents

53% women, 47% men

About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.

Ages and diplomas in Cléden-Cap-Sizun
Cléden-Cap-SizunFinistère medianFrance median
Under 158%15%17%
15–244.7%9.3%11%
25–4411%20%23%
45–6429%28%26%
65+48%26%22%
No diploma15%14%19%
CAP or BEP29%27%26%
Baccalauréat18%20%18%
Higher education29%34%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes

History

Cléden-Cap-Sizun keeps more of its old housing than Finistère’s towns or compared French towns: 29% built before 1919

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

Cléden-Cap-Sizun has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 2 inscrit, the second level. Among the classé monuments here is Oppidum gaulois. Its heritage reaches back to Antiquity.

4historic monuments

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé2
Inscrit2

Among them · Classé

Antiquity
oldest protected part
1914
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Work & commute

Cléden-Cap-Sizun has higher unemployment than Finistère’s towns or compared French towns: 16.4%

The median disposable income was €22,470 a year per consumption unit, below both Finistère’s towns (€26,720) and compared French towns (€25,970). Cléden-Cap-Sizun has 150 jobs for 250 working residents, 0.7 per worker. The census found 7.1% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport.

7%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving86%
On foot3%
Public transport3%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter0%
150
jobs based in Cléden-Cap-Sizun, 0.7 per working resident
16.4%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€22,470
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
7%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Cléden-Cap-Sizun’s median home price is €2,125/m²

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

Renting a house costs an estimated €8.69/m² a month. Advertised rents are estimated at €11.26/m² a month, close to Finistère’s towns (€11.55/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). From July 2023 to June 2026, 39 homes were sold in Cléden-Cap-Sizun.

€2,125/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Cléden-Cap-Sizun€2,125/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Finistère median€2,388/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€2,125/m²39
€11.26/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.89 to €14.26/m² a month)
€8.69/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Moulin de Trouguer and 4 more in and around Cléden-Cap-Sizun

Other places to visit and museums in and near Cléden-Cap-Sizun. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
Keep exploring

Everything we know about Cléden-Cap-Sizun

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Landmarks

Cléden-Cap-Sizun has 4 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 2 inscrit, the second level.

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Photo credits

Église Saint-Clet: Photo: Tof29 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chapelle de Saint-They: Photo: Heinrich Stürzl · CC BY-SA 4.0

Famous people from Cléden-Cap-Sizun

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cléden-Cap-Sizun yet.

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Cléden-Cap-Sizun’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

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AudiernePlouhinecPlozévetDouarnenezCrozonAudiernePlouhinecPlozévetDouarnenezCrozonCléden-Cap-Sizun
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Cléden-Cap-Sizun916—————
Audierne3,7275.1BCB−C−
Plouhinec3,9197.2—C+—C−
Plozévet2,98412—C+—C−
Douarnenez14,06815B−C+C+C−
Crozon7,49915B+CBC−

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Cléden-Cap-Sizun

Commune in Finistère, Brittany

Cléden-Cap-Sizun is a commune of 916 people in the Communauté de communes Cap Sizun - Pointe du Raz. 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

Population
916 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Cap Sizun - Pointe du Raz
Département
Finistère (29)
Région
Brittany
Area
7.5 sq mi (19.3 km²)
INSEE code
29028

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 9, 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.