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The town, home to 1,002 people, lies in Finistère, Brittany.
Tourch’s strongest is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The local economy does well: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 5.5% unemployment. Health outcomes fall short of most towns (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 4% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (D).
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Tourch 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 one thing Tourch does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Tourch 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.
Tourch has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Tourch as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Gilles, in Elliant, 3.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tourch.
5.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Finistère’s towns (8.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Households’ median disposable income: €25,020 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
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. After the care-home adjustment, Tourch’s deaths ran at 104 per 100 expected, higher than both Finistère’s towns (95) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 86 residents of Tourch died, against 83 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 4% more. The nearest emergency department to Tourch is Centre hospitalier Concarneau, 11.3 mi away.
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 D− to B.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.35/m² a month, below both Finistère’s towns (€11.55/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). House rents are put at about €8.87/m² a month. The market in Tourch: 30 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,464/m² | 30 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
25% of adults hold a degree, below Finistère’s towns (34%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. The under-15s are 17% of the population here. People aged 15 to 24 are a tenth of the population.
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Tourch | Finistère median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Finistère median and France median: the median of compared communes
Among the graded crimes in Tourch, the most frequent was other physical violence (2025). On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 5.7 violent offenses and 7.9 graded property crimes a year.
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 · Small counts of family violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 100.0% of the index here.
Nothing in Tourch is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Tourch yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Tourch has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Tourch grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Finistère, Brittany
Tourch is a commune of 1,002 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.