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With 1,074 residents, it is a town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Housing is within reach: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 31% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Elsewhere it is close to typical: C+ for jobs & income and C+ for walkability. It skews young: only 15% of residents are 65 or over.
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. Feins 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 Feins does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Feins 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.
Feins 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 Feins as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Porte de l'ancienne église, in Marcillé-Raoul, 4.3 mi away.
29% 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 Feins.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in Feins: 24 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Those aged 15 to 24 account for 8.6% of residents. 38% of adults hold a degree, about level with Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (39%) and above compared French towns (30%).
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Feins | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 29% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 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.
Adjusted mortality in Feins: 79 deaths for every 100 expected. From 2016 to 2025, 53 residents of Feins died, against 67 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% fewer. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Feins is Chp Saint Gregoire, 13 mi away. 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A+.
Feins has 100 jobs for 550 working residents, 0.2 per worker. 15.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, higher than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (12.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Median disposable income comes to €25,860 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Feins 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 Feins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feins | 1,074 | — | — | A | — | A− |
| Sens-de-Bretagne | 2,592 | 4.4 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné | 4,304 | 4.9 | A+ | B− | A | A− |
| Combourg | 6,411 | 7.5 | B | C+ | B | B− |
| Melesse | 7,541 | 8.2 | A | C | B | B+ |
| Tinténiac | 3,939 | 9.1 | B− | C+ | C | B |
| La Mézière | 5,033 | 9.5 | A+ | C+ | A− | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Feins 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 10.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Feins is a commune of 1,074 people in the Communauté de communes Val d'Ille-Aubigné. 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) · 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.