Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for health, B− for jobs & income and C+ for walkability. Holiday and other second homes account for 10% of homes. The median home sells for €1,460/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Bazouges-la-Pérouse 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 Bazouges-la-Pérouse 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.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Fewer people in Bazouges-la-Pérouse hold a degree than in Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns or compared French towns: 20%
27% of residents are 65 or over. The 15-to-24 age group: 7.7%, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). The under-15s are 16% of the population here.
49.7median age
Bazouges-la-PérouseIlle-et-Vilaine medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
27%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma28%
CAP or BEP26%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education20%
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
HealthHealth B
Bazouges-la-Pérouse is 18 mi from the nearest emergency department
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
After the care-home adjustment, Bazouges-la-Pérouse’s deaths ran at 83 per 100 expected, between Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). There are 3 general practitioners locally. Life expectancy at birth in Ille-et-Vilaine is 86 years for women and 80.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 312 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 253: 23% above.
−17%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw123
Adjusted83
Median town88
Expected100
3
GPs in Bazouges-la-Pérouse · 3.5 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
18 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Fougeres
18 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Fougeres
86 · 80.9
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Ille-et-Vilaine, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Bazouges-la-Pérouse keeps more of its old housing than Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns or compared French towns: 45% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
3 of the 3 are houses and mansions. Since 2018, a site patrimonial remarquable has protected part of the town. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 17th century.
3historic monuments
Monuments by protection · Mérimée
Classé0
Inscrit3
17th c.
oldest protected part
1930
first monument protected
2018
protected historic area (site patrimonial remarquable)
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Work & commuteJobs & income B−
Incomes in Bazouges-la-Pérouse run lower than in both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns and compared French towns: a median €24,420 a year per consumption unit
For its 700 residents in work, Bazouges-la-Pérouse has 650 jobs: 0.9 each. Of those in the labour force, 8.0% are unemployed. 6.3% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
11%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving82%
On foot7%
Public transport3%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
650
jobs based in Bazouges-la-Pérouse, 0.9 per working resident
8.0%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,420
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
6%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C+
Walkability: better than 44% of compared French towns
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Bazouges-la-Pérouse
Is Bazouges-la-Pérouse safe?
Bazouges-la-Pérouse has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.1 recorded violent incidents and 8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Is Bazouges-la-Pérouse expensive to live in?
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Bazouges-la-Pérouse grades A for cost of living.
About Bazouges-la-Pérouse
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Bazouges-la-Pérouse is a commune of 1,877 people in the Communauté de communes Couesnon Marches de Bretagne. 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
1,877 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Couesnon Marches de Bretagne
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.
