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A town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, home to 2,703 people.
Étrelles’s strongest subject is jobs & income: 2.4 jobs per working resident; 5.2% unemployment. School results are strong (A): brevet results 2 points above the expected rate. A 70 m² home at the median €1,947/m² costs 5.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Vitré Communauté. It has 3,100 jobs for 1,300 working residents.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Étrelles has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Étrelles does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Étrelles 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.
Étrelles has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Étrelles as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Menhir dit La Pierre Blanche, in Pocé-les-Bois, 3.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage in and near Étrelles. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Étrelles.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 4 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.5 mi away. On school results, the town ranks #9 of 80 in Ille-et-Vilaine.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège La Salle Saint-Joseph PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 121 | 96%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
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. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Étrelles come to 77 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 262 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 295, 13% more.
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.
Just over a third of adults hold a degree, between Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (39%) and compared French towns (30%). Retirement age and beyond: 18% of residents are 65 or older. Ages in Étrelles split evenly at 40.4: half are older, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Étrelles | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
56 sales of houses and apartments in Étrelles, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,947/m². Houses were 91% of what sold. Renting a house costs an estimated €9.14/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,925/m² | 51 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
5.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (12.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €27,340 a year.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Étrelles 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 Étrelles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Étrelles | 2,703 | — | — | B | — | A− |
| Argentré-du-Plessis | 4,633 | 2.4 | — | B | — | A+ |
| Vitré | 19,365 | 4 | A | C+ | B− | A− |
| Bais | 2,539 | 5.7 | — | A | — | B |
| La Guerche-de-Bretagne | 4,554 | 8.4 | A+ | A− | B+ | B+ |
| Val-d'Izé | 2,620 | 9.5 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Châteaubourg | 7,533 | 9.8 | A | C | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Étrelles has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.8 recorded violent incidents and 5.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 90% of compared French towns and #9 of 80 in Ille-et-Vilaine. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,947/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Étrelles grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Étrelles is a commune of 2,703 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
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.