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With 2,539 residents, it is a town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is its weak spot: nearly three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The median sale price is €1,737/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Bais 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.
Each subject compares Bais 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.
Bais has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The 2 things Bais does most differently from other towns.
Bais has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1910.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Bais has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Marse: Photo: GO69 · Public domain
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bais.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
61 houses and apartments changed hands in Bais from July 2023 to June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €8.44/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,737/m² | 61 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Median disposable income comes to €24,840 a year per consumption unit. Jobs located in Bais: 700, for 1,150 residents in work (0.6 each). At the census, 4.5% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (12.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group: 9.5%, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Nearly a fifth of residents have reached 65. Degrees are held by 22% of adults.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Bais | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Bais is Église Saint-Marse. The oldest protected building goes back to the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Ille-et-Vilaine, women can expect to live 86 years and men 80.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 329 residents of Bais died, against 294 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 12% more. The nearest emergency department to Bais is Centre hospitalier Vitre, 8.4 mi away. One GP practises locally.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
The commonest graded crime in Bais was criminal damage (2025). Graded property crimes ran at 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 3 (2023–2025 average). Recorded offenses in the town came to 13 in 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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 56.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Bais as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Bais is a commune of 2,539 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Vitré 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bais | 2,539 | — | — | A | — | B |
| La Guerche-de-Bretagne | 4,554 | 5.5 | A+ | A− | B+ | B+ |
| Étrelles | 2,703 | 5.7 | — | B | — | A− |
| Piré-Chancé | 3,224 | 5.9 | — | B | — | A− |
| Argentré-du-Plessis | 4,633 | 7.4 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Retiers | 4,566 | 7.6 | A | B | A | A− |
| Châteaubourg | 7,533 | 8.4 | A | C | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bais 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 Bais grades A for cost of living.
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.