Crozon grades B+ overall: better than 72% of compared French towns, and #35 of 59 in Finistère. Its weakest subject is health (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 0% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €2,558/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Presqu'île de Crozon-Aulne maritime. Its strongest is schools (A+): brevet results 5.3 points above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Crozon 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.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Crozon skews older, with 36% of residents 65 or over, more than in Finistère’s towns and across compared French towns
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8% of residents, below both Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). 34% of adults hold a degree. Half of Crozon is older than 57.1, half younger.
57.1median age
CrozonFinistère medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
36%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma14%
CAP or BEP24%
Baccalauréat21%
Higher education34%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
6 historic monuments, the oldest from prehistory
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Crozon has 8 protected monuments per 10,000 residents, higher than both Finistère’s towns (5) and compared French towns (2.5). Among the classé monuments in the town is Alignements de Ty-ar-C'huré, ou maison du Curé, Kercolleoc'h. Protection here reaches back to prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth C−
Adjusted for age and care homes, Crozon sees more deaths than 79% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Crozon is Hopital Instruction des Armees Clermont Tonnerre, 10 mi away. Adjusted mortality in the town: 100 deaths for every 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 1,121 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,272, 14% more. In Finistère, life expectancy at birth reaches 84.8 years for women and 79 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
−0%deaths against expected, after care homesC−Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw114
Adjusted100
Median town88
Expected100
8
GPs in Crozon · 5.3 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
10 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Hopital Instruction des Armees Clermont Tonnerre
10 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Chru Brest site Hopital Morvan
84.8 · 79
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Finistère, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The split in Crozon: €2,652/m² for houses, €2,298/m² for apartments. 359 sales of houses and apartments in the town, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,558/m². Houses were three quarters of what sold.
€2,558/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Crozon€2,558/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Finistère median€2,388/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,652/m²
270
Apartments
€2,298/m²
89
€12.50/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€10.00 to €15.61/m² a month)
6.9
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€10.70/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€26,070
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Presqu'île de Crozon-Aulne maritime
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income A−
More commuters in Crozon walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Finistère’s towns or compared French towns: 16.3%
Jobs based in Crozon number 4,000, against 2,750 residents in work (1.5 per worker). 7.5% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. The unemployment rate comes to 9.2%.
16%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving75%
On foot9%
Bicycle4%
Public transport3%
Motorbike or scooter1%
4,000
jobs based in Crozon, 1.5 per working resident
9.2%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,720
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
8%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 63% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Crozon ranks below 61% of compared French towns for crime per resident
The 2025 count: 168 offenses in Crozon. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 7.3 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 11.9. Among the graded crimes here, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
7.3recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearBSafety Grade
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage59
Family violence28
Other physical violence25
Theft from vehicles16
Sexual violence14
Burglary13
Vehicle theft13
Armed robbery0
Theft without violence101
Fraud53
Drug use46
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.
7.3
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
11.9
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
168
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
0.5%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Villa Ker Ar Bruck: Photo: Michael Rapp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Alignement mégalithique: Photo: Ofion serpiente · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Four à chaux de l'Aber: Photo: Yann Gwilhoù · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chapelle Saint-Fiacre: Photo: Michael Rapp · CC BY-SA 3.0
Louis Jouvet: Studio Harcourt, Public domain · Joseph Velly: Lafregate, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Joseph-Marie Graveran: Hervé Queinnec (Archives diocésaines de Quimper), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Léa Mazé: ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0
Crozon’s neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Crozon
Is Crozon safe?
It grades B for safety, #40 of 59 in Finistère. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 59 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Crozon good?
They grade A+, better than 97% of compared French towns and #3 of 63 in Finistère. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Crozon expensive to live in?
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,558/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.50/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Crozon grades C for cost of living.
About Crozon
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Crozon is a commune of 7,499 people in the Communauté de communes Presqu'île de Crozon-Aulne maritime. 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
7,499 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Presqu'île de Crozon-Aulne maritime
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.
