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Some 1,705 people live in this town, in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest subject is jobs & income: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 8.4% unemployment. It lags on walkability as well: 35% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 11% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes go for a median €1,838/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Dingé 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 Dingé does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Dingé 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.
Dingé 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 Dingé as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhir dit La Pierre-Longue, in Cuguen, 5.1 mi away.
34% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dingé.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses were 99% of what sold. The market in Dingé: 73 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,845/m² | 72 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Among adults, 33% have a degree. 17% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for one in ten residents.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Dingé | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment runs at 8.4%. At the census, 8.0% of working residents in Dingé went to work by public transport.
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.
116 deaths in Dingé between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 133: 13% below. The nearest emergency department to Dingé is Chp Saint Gregoire, 14.3 mi away. Average lifespans in Ille-et-Vilaine: 86 years for women, 80.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Nothing in Dingé 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 Dingé 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dingé | 1,705 | — | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Combourg | 6,411 | 4.4 | B | C+ | B | B− |
| Tinténiac | 3,939 | 6.1 | B− | C+ | C | B |
| Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné | 4,304 | 7.6 | A+ | B− | A | A− |
| Sens-de-Bretagne | 2,592 | 7.7 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Saint-Domineuc | 2,619 | 7.7 | — | B | — | B |
| Melesse | 7,541 | 9.2 | A | C | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Dingé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.3 recorded violent incidents and 6.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Dingé grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Dingé is a commune of 1,705 people in the Communauté de communes Bretagne Romantique. 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.