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Few residents are of retirement age: 9% are 65 or over. A town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, home to 1,237 people.
Where it does best is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 37% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car: 68% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs & income is weaker too: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 6.9% unemployment. At the median price of €1,962/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Liffré-Cormier Communauté.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Dourdain 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 Dourdain 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.
Dourdain has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Dourdain does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Dourdain as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, in Livré-sur-Changeon, 2.3 mi away.
24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Dourdain is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dourdain.
Graduates make up 28% of adults. People 65 and over make up 8.8% of the town, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Dourdain | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 25% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 30% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 8.8% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 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 Dourdain is Centre hospitalier Vitre, 8.5 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 58 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 37, 37% 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,962/m²: 43 houses and apartments sold in Dourdain between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,962/m² | 43 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 6.9%, below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (7.4%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. The median disposable income is €26,090 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Dourdain yet.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Dourdain is a commune of 1,237 people in the Communauté de communes Liffré-Cormier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dourdain | 1,237 | — | — | A− | — | A+ |
| La Bouëxière | 4,667 | 3 | A+ | B+ | A+ | A− |
| Val-d'Izé | 2,620 | 3.3 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier | 4,203 | 4.4 | A+ | B | A− | B+ |
| Châteaubourg | 7,533 | 5.9 | A | C | A− | A− |
| Liffré | 9,339 | 6 | A | C | B+ | B− |
| Rives-du-Couesnon | 2,927 | 6.4 | — | B+ | — | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Dourdain has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 6.2 recorded violent incidents and 8.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,962/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Dourdain 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 9, 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.