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This town in Finistère, Brittany has a population of 2,268.
Plouguin’s strongest is schools: brevet results 8 points above the expected rate. Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is walkability: 67% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Health is weaker too — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 8% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Plouguin 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 Plouguin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plouguin 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.
Plouguin has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
On the Culture ministry’s list, Plouguin counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1961.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plouguin.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Plouguin, 98.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, above both Finistère’s towns (94.1%) and compared French towns (87.5%). For the general bac, the closest lycée is 9.5 mi away. The nearest collège is 3.1 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Joseph PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 63 | 98%+8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Jobs located in Plouguin: 300, for 1,000 residents in work (0.3 each). 3.1% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. After tax and benefits, the median income is €25,960 a year per consumption unit.
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.
The market in Plouguin: 66 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. Renting a house costs an estimated €10.89/m² a month. Houses accounted for 97% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,871/m² | 64 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24, higher than Finistère’s towns (9.3%) and near compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up nearly a fifth of the town. Line up the people of Plouguin by age and the one in the middle is 41.1.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Plouguin | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 25% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
2 GPs practise in Plouguin. The nearest emergency department to Plouguin is Polyclinique de Keraudren, 8.7 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 156 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 143, 8% fewer. Life expectancy in Finistère: 84.8 years for women and 79 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from prehistory. Among the classé monuments in Plouguin is Menhir de Kervignen-Bras. 8.2% of its homes were built before 1919, above 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
Other places to visit and heritage in and near Plouguin. Best known first.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Plouguin counts 2 historic monuments: 2 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
Menhir de Lannoulouarn: Photo: EdouardHue · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Menhir de Kervignen-Bras: Photo: El Funcionario · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Plouguin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plouguin | 2,268 | — | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Ploudalmézeau | 6,522 | 3.8 | A+ | B | A+ | C |
| Milizac-Guipronvel | 4,816 | 4.3 | A+ | B | A+ | A− |
| Landéda | 3,702 | 4.5 | — | B− | — | C− |
| Lannilis | 5,709 | 4.6 | A | B | A− | B− |
| Bourg-Blanc | 3,573 | 4.7 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Plouvien | 3,968 | 6.5 | A | B+ | A+ | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Plouguin has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.6 recorded violent incidents and 6.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 99% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.16/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Plouguin grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Plouguin is a commune of 2,268 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays des Abers. 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.