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A town in Finistère, Brittany, home to 1,282 people.
Lanhouarneau’s strongest subject is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Lanhouarneau 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.
Each subject compares Lanhouarneau 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.
Lanhouarneau has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Lanhouarneau has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 2021.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lanhouarneau.
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. 95 deaths in Lanhouarneau between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 126: 25% below. The nearest emergency department to Lanhouarneau is Centre hospitalier Ferdinand Grall Landerneau, 9.1 mi away. The town has one family doctor.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 23 homes in Lanhouarneau.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Graduates make up 24% of adults. 18% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Finistère’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Lanhouarneau | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 15th century. Homes built before 1919 account for 8.7% of the housing.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Half of residents lived on more than €24,180 a year per consumption unit, below both Finistère’s towns (€26,720) and compared French towns (€25,970). 3.8% of Lanhouarneau’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For 2025, the figures show 5 offenses in Lanhouarneau. Graded property crimes ran at 8.1 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 5.3 (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (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 family 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, 80.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit and museums in and near Lanhouarneau. Best known first.
Lanhouarneau has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Hervé: Photo: GO69 · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Lanhouarneau.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanhouarneau | 1,282 | — | — | A− | — | A− |
| Lesneven | 7,566 | 5.1 | A | B | A− | B |
| Plouescat | 3,554 | 5.8 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Ploudaniel | 3,732 | 5.9 | — | B− | — | C+ |
| Le Folgoët | 3,315 | 6.1 | A | B− | A | C |
| Plouédern | 3,103 | 7.3 | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Cléder | 3,584 | 7.5 | — | B | — | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lanhouarneau has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Lanhouarneau is a commune of 1,282 people in the Communauté de communes Haut-Léon 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) · 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.