Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
3,431 people call this town in Finistère, Brittany home.
Saint-Yvi’s best grade is for health (A) — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 31% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is its weak spot: two in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,025/m².
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Saint-Yvi has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Saint-Yvi does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Yvi 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.
Saint-Yvi has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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On the Culture ministry’s list, Saint-Yvi counts 3 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 2 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 1910.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Yvi.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Finistère: 84.8 years for women, 79 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. France’s death rates at each age would predict 295 deaths in Saint-Yvi from 2016 to 2025; there were 205, 31% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Yvi is Centre hospitalier Concarneau, 6.8 mi away. This Finistère town has 3 family doctors.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
3.1% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Finistère’s towns (8.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment stands at 6.9%. Jobs located in Saint-Yvi: 500, for 1,550 residents in work (0.3 each).
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 Saint-Yvi: 71 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,025/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
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 Saint-Yvi is Chapelle avec l'ossuaire de Locmaria-an-Hent. Protection here reaches back to the 15th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
21% of residents are 65 or over, lower than Finistère’s towns (26%) and near compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 8.1% of the town. The age that splits Saint-Yvi in two is 43.7.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Yvi | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people averaged 3 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 5.3. In 2025, 17 offenses were recorded in Saint-Yvi. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage 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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (42.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Saint-Yvi. Best known first.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Saint-Yvi counts 3 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 2 inscrit at the second.
Église Notre-Dame: Photo: Gwendoland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Manoir de Toulgoat: Photo: Yann Gwilhoù · CC BY-SA 3.0
2 notable people were born in Saint-Yvi.
Alan Heusaff: Undenbennak, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Yvi | 3,431 | — | — | B+ | — | A |
| Elliant | 3,427 | 3.5 | — | B | — | D |
| Saint-Évarzec | 3,574 | 3.7 | — | B+ | — | C |
| La Forêt-Fouesnant | 3,508 | 3.8 | A− | C | A | C |
| Ergué-Gabéric | 8,606 | 5.3 | A+ | B | A+ | C+ |
| Rosporden | 7,550 | 5.6 | B− | B | B | C− |
| Concarneau | 20,845 | 5.8 | C | C | C | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Yvi has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 9 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Yvi grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Saint-Yvi is a commune of 3,431 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Concarneau Cornouaille Agglomération. 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.
