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1,979 people call this town in Finistère, Brittany home. It skews older: 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Guissény’s best grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Where it falls short is health (D) — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It is hard to get around without a car: just over two in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Incomes are on the low side (C): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 9.0% unemployment.
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 and employment, INSEE census 2023. Guissény 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 2 things Guissény does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Guissény 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.
Guissény has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Guissény as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhir Sud de Pontusval, in Plounéour-Brignogan-plages, 4.6 mi away.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Guissény.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 223 deaths in Guissény from 2016 to 2025; there were 253, 14% more. The nearest emergency department to Guissény is Polyclinique de Keraudren, 13.9 mi away. 3 GPs practise in the town. Also worth knowing: in Finistère, women can expect to live 84.8 years and men 79 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
5.6% of Guissény’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. The unemployment rate comes to 9.0%. The median disposable income was €26,060 a year per consumption unit, in line with Finistère’s towns (€26,720) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 28% of adults, below Finistère’s towns (34%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. Over-65s are 30% of the population. The age that splits Guissény in two is 52.2.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Guissény | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,200/m²: 81 houses and apartments sold in Guissény between July 2023 and June 2026. House rents are put at about €9.42/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,200/m² | 81 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
All told, Guissény had 21 recorded offenses in 2025. Violence against people averaged 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 11.3. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Guissény (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, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 43.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Guissény. Best known first.
Nothing in Guissény is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Guissény 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guissény | 1,979 | — | — | B | — | D |
| Plouguerneau | 6,755 | 4.6 | A− | B | A | C− |
| Le Folgoët | 3,315 | 5.5 | A | B− | A | C |
| Lesneven | 7,566 | 5.7 | A | B | A− | B |
| Lannilis | 5,709 | 6.3 | A | B | A− | B− |
| Plouvien | 3,968 | 6.8 | A | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Landéda | 3,702 | 7.8 | — | B− | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Guissény has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,200/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Guissény grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Guissény is a commune of 1,979 people in the Communauté de communes Communauté Lesneven Côte des Légendes. 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.