Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It skews young: only 14% of residents are 65 or over. 6,061 people live in this town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
The everyday basics are strong; the price of a home is the catch. Its strongest subject is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 30% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. With an A overall, Gévezé is better than 87% of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #34 of 75 in Ille-et-Vilaine. Pupils here do better than most (A−): brevet results a point below the expected rate. What counts against it is cost of living (C) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
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.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Gévezé 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.
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The 2 things Gévezé does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Gévezé, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 2009.
Gévezé has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Beauvais: Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Gévezé.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
7 GPs practise in Gévezé. The nearest emergency department to Gévezé is Chp Saint Gregoire, 7.1 mi away. 216 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 309: 30% below. 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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
People aged 15 to 24 make up 13% of the town, above both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). Over-65s are 14% of the population. 48% of adults hold a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Gévezé | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 48% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest general lycée is 6.8 mi away. School results put the town #37 of 80 in Ille-et-Vilaine. Collège pupils travel 2.1 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Germaine TillionNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 136 | 95%−1 pt |
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.
Apartments in Gévezé sell for €3,209/m², houses for €2,898/m². Houses made up 79% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. The market locally: 184 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,898/m² | 145 |
| Apartments | €3,209/m² | 39 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Gévezé holds 850 jobs; 3,000 of its residents are in work, so 0.3 jobs each. After tax and benefits, the median income is €28,330 a year per consumption unit. No commute at all: 3.9% of working residents locally at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
103 offenses were reported in Gévezé during 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.8 cases of violence against people and 11.8 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (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 · When sexual violence and armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (3.6% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 17th century. 6.7% of its homes were built before 1919, below both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (7.2%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Gévezé. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Gévezé yet.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Gévezé is a commune of 6,061 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gévezé | 6,061 | — | A | C | B+ | A |
| La Mézière | 5,033 | 2 | A+ | C+ | A− | A+ |
| La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz | 4,738 | 4.1 | A | C | B+ | A |
| Melesse | 7,541 | 4.4 | A | C | B | B+ |
| Romillé | 4,189 | 4.5 | — | B− | — | B− |
| Pacé | 11,703 | 4.8 | A | C− | B+ | A |
| Saint-Gilles | 5,576 | 5.2 | A | C | B+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #31 of 75 in Ille-et-Vilaine. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 20 burglaries and 41 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 78% of compared French towns and #37 of 80 in Ille-et-Vilaine. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.86/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Gévezé grades C 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.