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3,404 people call this town in Finistère, Brittany home.
Mellac’s strongest is jobs & income — 0.6 jobs per working resident; 6.7% unemployment. School results are strong: bac results a point above the expected rate; brevet results 3.3 points below the expected rate. Walkability is its weak spot (C−): 62% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,279/m²: 70 m² comes to 6.1 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Quimperlé Communauté.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Mellac has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Mellac does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mellac 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.
Mellac has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Mellac: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1932.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mellac.
5.8% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. At the census, 3.2% of working residents in Mellac didn’t travel to work at all. The median disposable income was €26,570 a year per consumption unit, about level with both 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.
96.9% of candidates passed the bac at the lycées within 5 km of Mellac, close to Finistère’s towns (96.9%) and above compared French towns (92.9%). Schools rank #48 of 63 in Finistère. A collège lies 2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Notre-Dame de Kerbertrand PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 119 | 96%−1 pt |
| Lycée KerneuzecNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 261 | 98%+1 pt |
| Lycée Notre-Dame de Kerbertrand PrivateBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateGeneral lycée | General lycée | 88 | 99%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Mellac has 5 family doctors. Adjusted for age and care homes, Mellac records 94 deaths per 100 expected, about level with Finistère’s towns (95) and above compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 251 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 236, 6% fewer. 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.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B.
18% of residents are 65 or over. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 7.3% of residents, below both Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). Half the people of Mellac are older than 42.1.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Mellac | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.3% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 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.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Mellac: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level). Among the classé monuments locally is Manoir de Kernault. Protection here reaches back to prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,279/m², comes from 84 sales of houses and apartments in Mellac from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses made up 98% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,288/m² | 82 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 2025 count: 19 offenses in Mellac. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3 violent offenses and 6.2 graded property crimes a year. The commonest graded crime in the town was family violence (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, 44.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Mellac. Best known first.
AttractionManoir de Kernaultin town
MuseumPrésidial de Quimperlé3.7 km southeast, in QuimperléAbbeyAbbeyAbbaye Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé3.8 km southeast, in QuimperléMuseumMuseumCouvent des Ursulines de Quimperlé4 km southeast, in QuimperléMuseumMuseumMaison des Archers3.8 km southeast, in QuimperléAttractionAttractionMaison, 4 rue Dom-Morice3.8 km southeast, in QuimperléPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
The list names few of Mellac’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Manoir de Kernault: Photo: Lanzonnet · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Mellac.
Louis Le Pensec: jyc1, CC BY 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mellac | 3,404 | — | — | B− | — | C |
| Quimperlé | 12,469 | 2.3 | C | C+ | C− | D |
| Rédené | 3,043 | 5.7 | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Bannalec | 5,725 | 5.9 | A− | B− | A | C− |
| Riec-sur-Bélon | 4,376 | 6.6 | B+ | B− | A+ | C |
| Moëlan-sur-Mer | 6,749 | 7.1 | B+ | C | A | D |
| Clohars-Carnoët | 4,708 | 7.8 | B− | C | A | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mellac has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B+, better than 71% of compared French towns and #48 of 63 in Finistère. The lycée stands out: 98% of 261 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Kerneuzec in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,279/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mellac grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Mellac is a commune of 3,404 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Quimperlé 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) · 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.
