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A town of 1,130 in Finistère, Brittany.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 33% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Walkability is weaker too — 48% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The median price paid is €1,178/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Cléden-Poher 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 one thing Cléden-Poher does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cléden-Poher 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.
Cléden-Poher has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Cléden-Poher has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 1983.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cléden-Poher.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Finistère is 84.8 years for women and 79 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 141 deaths in Cléden-Poher between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 106: 33% above. One GP practises here.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Sales in Cléden-Poher from July 2023 to June 2026: 53 houses and apartments. House rents are put at about €7.60/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,178/m² | 53 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Jobs located in Cléden-Poher: 450, for 500 residents in work (0.9 each). 3.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Finistère’s towns (8.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). At the census, 4.2% of working residents in Cléden-Poher didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
Nearly a tenth of its homes were built before 1919, above Finistère’s towns (5.6%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike. Among the classé monuments in Cléden-Poher is Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 15th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
8.8% of the population is aged 15 to 24, lower than both Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). Retirement age and beyond: 23% of residents are 65 or older. Residents of Cléden-Poher have a median age of 46.7.
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Cléden-Poher | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Cléden-Poher has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Manoir du Ster: Photo: Yann Gwilhoù · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption: Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cléden-Poher yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cléden-Poher | 1,130 | — | — | A | — | D− |
| Carhaix-Plouguer | 7,412 | 5.1 | C | B+ | D | C |
| Gourin Morbihan | 3,960 | 7.5 | B+ | B | B | C− |
| Châteauneuf-du-Faou | 3,651 | 8 | B+ | A− | B− | C |
| Pleyben | 3,692 | 14 | B | A− | A− | D |
| Scaër | 5,178 | 15 | C+ | A− | A− | D |
| Le Faouët Morbihan | 2,814 | 16 | B+ | C+ | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cléden-Poher has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7.2 recorded violent incidents and 8.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Cléden-Poher grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Cléden-Poher is a commune of 1,130 people in the Communauté de communes Poher communauté. 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 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.
