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A town of 3,311 in Finistère, Brittany.
Pleuven’s strongest subject is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €2,982/m², a 70 m² home costs 7.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes du Pays Fouesnantais. Most journeys need a car (C−): nearly two thirds of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Pleuven 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 Pleuven does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Pleuven 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.
Pleuven has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Pleuven: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1968.
3.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
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Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For a family doctor, residents of Pleuven can choose among 3 GPs. 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. 375 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 405: 7% below.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
7.0% of people in the labour force have no job. Half of residents lived on more than €27,780 a year per consumption unit, close to Finistère’s towns (€26,720) and above compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 4.2% of working residents in Pleuven at the census.
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.
General-bac pupils go 5.3 mi to the nearest lycée. The closest collège is 1.5 mi off. On school results, the town ranks #51 of 63 in Finistère.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège KervihanNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 198 | 90%−4 pts |
| Collège Saint-Joseph PrivateBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 91 | 97%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town. Degrees are held by 38% of adults, higher than both Finistère’s towns (34%) and compared French towns (30%). 16% of residents are children under 15.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Pleuven | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 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 protected list starts in prehistory. 3.5% of its homes were built before 1919, below Finistère’s towns (5.6%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike.
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.
Behind the median of €2,982/m²: 89 houses and apartments sold in Pleuven between July 2023 and June 2026. The estimated advertised rent is €11.04/m² a month, near Finistère’s towns (€11.55/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The sales split: 96% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,982/m² | 85 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people averaged 3 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 6.9. In 2025, 40 offenses were recorded in Pleuven. The commonest graded crime in the town was criminal damage (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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 36.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Pleuven has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Pleuven 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleuven | 3,311 | — | — | B | — | A− |
| Fouesnant | 10,436 | 2.6 | A− | C | A | B− |
| Saint-Évarzec | 3,574 | 2.8 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Gouesnach | 2,836 | 3 | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Bénodet | 3,849 | 3.1 | A− | C− | A | B+ |
| La Forêt-Fouesnant | 3,508 | 3.4 | A− | C | A | C |
| Plomelin | 4,239 | 5.2 | B+ | C+ | A+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Pleuven has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 23 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 68% of compared French towns and #51 of 63 in Finistère. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,982/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Pleuven grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Pleuven is a commune of 3,311 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays Fouesnantais. 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.