School results are strong (A): brevet results 2.3 points above the expected rate. Housing is within reach (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4 times 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 11% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are on the low side: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 8.9% unemployment.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Plounévez-Lochrist 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 Plounévez-Lochrist 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.
Domaine du château de Maillé · Classé · Photo: Kergourlay · CC BY-SA 3.0
Plounévez-Lochrist’s story
Plounévez-Lochrist in pictures
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Plounévez-Lochrist: 2 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 1914.
Lan Inisan, born in 1826, is the one person born in Plounévez-Lochrist before 1900 that Wikidata records.
1914First protected: Chapelle de Lochrist
1981Most recently protected: Domaine du château de Maillé
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Plounévez-Lochrist: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plounévez-Lochrist.
HealthHealth D
Mortality in Plounévez-Lochrist, once ages and care homes are allowed for, tops Finistère’s towns and compared French towns: 111 per 100 expected
+11%deaths against expected, after care homesDHealth Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
244 deaths in Plounévez-Lochrist between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 221: 11% above. The nearest emergency department to Plounévez-Lochrist is Centre hospitalier Ferdinand Grall Landerneau, 12 mi away. This Finistère town has one family doctor. Average lifespans in Finistère: 84.8 years for women, 79 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw111
Adjusted111
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Plounévez-Lochrist · 2.7 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
12 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Ferdinand Grall Landerneau
12 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Ferdinand Grall Landerneau
84.8 · 79
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Finistère, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Schools around Plounévez-Lochrist do better than those of 85% of compared French towns
93.0%passed the brevetASchool Grade
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Plounévez-Lochrist, 93.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, close to Finistère’s towns (94.1%) and above compared French towns (87.5%). General-bac pupils go 6.5 mi to the nearest lycée. The nearest collège is 2.7 mi away.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
HousingCost of living A−
Buying in Plounévez-Lochrist costs less than in both Finistère’s towns and compared French towns: the median sale is €1,463/m²
€1,463/m²median sale price
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.81/m² a month, below both Finistère’s towns (€11.55/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The market in Plounévez-Lochrist: 82 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €8.55/m² a month.
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Plounévez-Lochrist€1,463/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Finistère median€2,388/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€1,463/m²
82
€9.81/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.49 to €12.86/m² a month)
4
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€8.55/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€25,570
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Haut-Léon Communauté
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income C−
Plounévez-Lochrist is harder to get around on foot than 78% of compared French towns
6%walk, cycle or take transit
Half of residents lived on more than €24,720 a year per consumption unit, below Finistère’s towns (€26,720) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. Walking, cycling and public transport carried 6.3% of commuters at the census. At the census, 7.2% of working residents in Plounévez-Lochrist didn’t travel to work at all.
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving86%
On foot3%
Public transport2%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
450
jobs based in Plounévez-Lochrist, 0.4 per working resident
8.9%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,720
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
7%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C−
Walkability: better than 23% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
History
Plounévez-Lochrist has 3 historic monuments, the oldest from prehistory
3historic monuments
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Churches, chapels and other religious buildings, 2 of the 3, make up the bulk. Among the classé monuments in Plounévez-Lochrist is Chapelle de Lochrist. Protection here reaches back to prehistory. The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments here: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Who lives here
Plounévez-Lochrist has fewer young adults than Finistère’s towns or compared French towns: 8.5% are 15 to 24
48.5median age
Degrees are held by 28% of adults, lower than both Finistère’s towns (34%) and compared French towns (30%). Nearly a quarter of residents have reached 65. One measure of family life: 16% of residents are under 15.
Plounévez-LochristFinistère medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
24%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma13%
CAP or BEP30%
Baccalauréat23%
Higher education28%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
Plounévez-Lochrist is a commune of 2,281 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
Population
2,281 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Haut-Léon Communauté
Département
Finistère (29)
Région
Brittany
Area
15.3 sq mi (39.5 km²)
INSEE code
29206
Plounévez-Lochrist’s neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Plounévez-Lochrist
Is Plounévez-Lochrist safe?
Plounévez-Lochrist 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 4.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Are schools in Plounévez-Lochrist good?
They grade A, better than 85% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Plounévez-Lochrist expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Plounévez-Lochrist grades A− for cost of living.
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.
