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Some 1,407 people live in this town, in Finistère, Brittany.
Kernilis’s best grade is for cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 33% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 31% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car: just over four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. It skews young: only 15% of residents are 65 or over.
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. Kernilis 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 Kernilis does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Kernilis 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.
Kernilis has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Kernilis as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Chapelle Saint-Jean-Balanan, in Plouvien, 2.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kernilis.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Finistère can expect 84.8 years and a boy 79 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 89 residents of Kernilis died, against 68 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 31% more. The nearest emergency department to Kernilis is Polyclinique de Keraudren, 10.2 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.
Over-65s are 15% of the population. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 13% of residents, above both Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). Line up the people of Kernilis by age and the one in the middle is 38.2.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Kernilis | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 7.7% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 27% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
The median disposable income was €25,080 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Finistère’s towns (€26,720). Per resident in work, Kernilis counts 0.3 jobs (200 jobs, 700 workers). Also worth knowing: 4.7% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport.
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.
28 houses and apartments changed hands in Kernilis from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Kernilis. Best known first.
Nothing in Kernilis 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 Kernilis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kernilis | 1,407 | — | — | A− | — | D− |
| Plouvien | 3,968 | 3.3 | A | B+ | A+ | C− |
| Le Folgoët | 3,315 | 3.5 | A | B− | A | C |
| Lesneven | 7,566 | 4.4 | A | B | A− | B |
| Plabennec | 8,686 | 5 | A | C+ | A+ | C |
| Lannilis | 5,709 | 5.1 | A | B | A− | B− |
| Plouguerneau | 6,755 | 5.3 | A− | B | A | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Kernilis has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.8 recorded violent incidents and 7.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Kernilis is a commune of 1,407 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) · 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.