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This town in Finistère, Brittany has a population of 1,021.
Mahalon’s strongest subject is schools (A−): brevet results a point above the expected rate. It is hard to get around without a car: 37% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Buying in is costly: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 41% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails 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.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Mahalon 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 Mahalon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mahalon 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.
Mahalon 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 Mahalon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-de-Confort, in Confort-Meilars, 1.5 mi away.
11% 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 Mahalon.
Mahalon holds 100 jobs; 500 of its residents are in work, so 0.2 jobs each. At the census, 3.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Half of residents lived on more than €25,920 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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 6.1 mi away. The town’s pupils have a collège 3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Henri Le MoalNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 67 | 87%−7 pts |
| Collège Lamennais - Cap Sizun PrivateBest against expectations: 13 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 45 | 100%+13 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Sales in Mahalon from July 2023 to June 2026: 29 houses and apartments. House rents are put at about €8.69/m² a month.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Mahalon is Centre hospitalier de Douarnenez, 6.4 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 77 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 73, 6% fewer. Adjusted for age and care homes, Mahalon records 94 deaths per 100 expected, about level with Finistère’s towns (95) and above compared French towns (88). Women in Finistère live to 84.8 on average and men to 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A−.
Nearly a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, near Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). The share of residents under 15 is 17%. The age that splits Mahalon in two is 45.6.
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Mahalon | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 7.1% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.9 cases of violence against people and 6.9 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). More of the graded crimes in Mahalon were other physical violence 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 and criminal damage, 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, 100.0% of the index here.
Museums and other places to visit in and near Mahalon. Best known first.
Nothing in Mahalon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Mahalon as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahalon | 1,021 | — | — | C− | — | C |
| Plozévet | 2,984 | 3.1 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Plouhinec | 3,919 | 3.7 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Audierne | 3,727 | 5.6 | B | C | B− | C− |
| Douarnenez | 14,068 | 6.1 | B− | C+ | C+ | C− |
| Plonéour-Lanvern | 6,452 | 12 | B | B− | A+ | C |
| Pluguffan | 4,223 | 12 | B+ | B− | A | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mahalon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A−, better than 79% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Mahalon is a commune of 1,021 people in the Communauté de communes Cap Sizun - Pointe du Raz. 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.