Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
In Finistère, Brittany, this town has 2,585 residents.
Guiclan’s best grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Most journeys need a car: 43% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Homes go for a median €1,699/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Guiclan 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 2 things Guiclan does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Guiclan 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.
Guiclan has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
On the Culture ministry’s list, Guiclan counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1913.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Guiclan.
Per resident in work, Guiclan counts 0.5 jobs (650 jobs, 1,200 workers). 4.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Finistère’s towns (8.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Median disposable income comes to €25,220 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €9.05/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 63 homes in Guiclan.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,699/m² | 63 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 65-and-over age group makes up 18% of residents. One in ten residents are 15 to 24, close to Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and below compared French towns (11%). Ages in Guiclan split evenly at 40.4: half are older, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Guiclan | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
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. From 2016 to 2025, 242 residents of Guiclan died, against 214 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% more. Its care home for older people (33 places) counts its residents as Guiclan’s; allowing for it, deaths were 6% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Guiclan is C H des Pays de Morlaix, 6.6 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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Guiclan is Grotte et rocher de Roc'h-Toul. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 17th century. A tenth of its homes were built before 1919, higher than both Finistère’s towns (5.6%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 4 cases of violence against people and 5.7 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Police and gendarmerie recorded 13 offenses in Guiclan in 2025. Of the graded crimes in the town, family violence came up most often (2025).
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, 50.9% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Guiclan. Best known first.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Guiclan counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second.
Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: Original uploader was Deneza at fr.wikipedia · Public domain · Grotte et rocher de Roc'h-Toul: Photo: GO69 · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Guiclan.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guiclan | 2,585 | — | — | B+ | — | C |
| Saint-Thégonnec Loc-Eguiner | 3,148 | 2.6 | — | A− | — | B− |
| Plouvorn | 2,916 | 3.8 | — | A− | — | C |
| Pleyber-Christ | 3,166 | 5 | — | A− | — | C |
| Taulé | 2,914 | 5.4 | — | A− | — | B− |
| Landivisiau | 9,426 | 5.5 | A− | B | B | C |
| Plouénan | 2,610 | 5.6 | — | A− | — | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Guiclan has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Guiclan grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Guiclan is a commune of 2,585 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Landivisiau. 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 October 30, 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.
