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It is a town of 2,232 residents in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Brécé’s strongest is health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 27% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Pupils here do better than most (A−): brevet results at the expected rate. The weak point is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Young adults aged 15 to 24 make up 14% of residents.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Brécé 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 2 things Brécé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Brécé 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.
Brécé 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 Brécé as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Manoir de Boisorcant, in Noyal-sur-Vilaine, 3.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Brécé.
20% are under 15, higher than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). Among adults, 43% have a degree. Residents of Brécé have a median age of 39.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Brécé | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 14% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 12% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Brécé is Hopital Prive Sevigne, 6.6 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 74 residents of Brécé died, against 101 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 27% fewer. Women in Ille-et-Vilaine live to 86 on average and men to 80.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
A collège lies 2.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jacques BrelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 126 | 96%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €11.25/m² a month. Houses were four fifths of what sold. Brécé recorded 65 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,669/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Jobs located in Brécé: 1,050, for 1,100 residents in work (1 each). Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, higher than Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (7.4%) yet lower than compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 15.7% of commuters got to work without a car.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.2 cases of violence against people and 6.1 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). All told, Brécé had 15 recorded offenses in 2025. 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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 63.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Brécé 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 Brécé yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brécé | 2,232 | — | — | C | — | A |
| Servon-sur-Vilaine | 4,152 | 1.5 | — | B− | — | A+ |
| Noyal-sur-Vilaine | 6,269 | 1.7 | A+ | C+ | B+ | A |
| Acigné | 6,874 | 2.7 | A+ | C− | A | A |
| Domloup | 3,877 | 3.5 | — | C+ | — | A− |
| Châteaubourg | 7,533 | 4.1 | A | C | A− | A− |
| Châteaugiron | 10,845 | 4.2 | A+ | C+ | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Brécé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A−, better than 84% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.84/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Brécé grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Brécé is a commune of 2,232 people in the Rennes Métropole. 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.