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A town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, home to 4,175 people. Only 12% of residents are 65 or over.
Strong in places, weak in others. Its strongest is safety (A+) — an average of 5.3 recorded violent incidents and 5.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Add schools to its strengths (A): brevet results 2 points above the expected rate. It is hard to get around without a car (C−): 37% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,233/m² takes 5.9 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Vallons de Haute-Bretagne Communauté. Health is weaker too — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The overall grade lands at A−, #44 of 75 in Ille-et-Vilaine. Set against the rest, it does better than 83% of compared French towns.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · 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.
The 2 things Guignen does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Guignen 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 Culture ministry lists no building in Guignen as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château du Boschet, in Bourg-des-Comptes, 4.8 mi away.
15% 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 Guignen.
People 65 and over make up just over a tenth of the town, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up 31% of adults. Guignen has a median age of 37.8 years.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Guignen | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 12% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
In 2025, 45 offenses were recorded in Guignen. This Ille-et-Vilaine town ranks first of the 75 compared towns in Ille-et-Vilaine on the Safety Grade. Police and gendarmerie recorded 45 offenses in the graded categories here in 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 · Small counts of other physical violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 19.6% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 8.6 mi off. Ranked by results, schools here are #4 of 80 in Ille-et-Vilaine.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Saint-Joseph PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 80 | 99%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 7.4%, about level with Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (7.4%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). Jobs based in Guignen number 600, against 2,050 residents in work (0.3 per worker). The median disposable income is €26,770 a year per consumption unit.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 203 residents of Guignen died, against 207 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 2% fewer. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 98 per 100 expected, higher than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Guignen is Chru de Rennes site Hopital Sud, 14.5 mi away. In Ille-et-Vilaine, women can expect to live 86 years and men 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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B−.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,233/m²: 117 houses and apartments sold in Guignen between July 2023 and June 2026. The sales split: 94% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,224/m² | 110 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Guignen is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Guignen.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guignen | 4,175 | — | A− | B | A+ | C− |
| Guichen | 9,412 | 4.6 | A+ | C+ | A | A− |
| Bourg-des-Comptes | 3,411 | 5.5 | — | B | — | C+ |
| Goven | 4,359 | 5.9 | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Pléchâtel | 2,833 | 6.9 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Val d'Anast | 3,930 | 7 | A− | A− | A | C |
| Guipry-Messac | 7,354 | 7.1 | B− | A− | A− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 75 in Ille-et-Vilaine. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 9 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 94% of compared French towns and #4 of 80 in Ille-et-Vilaine. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,233/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Guignen grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Guignen is a commune of 4,175 people in the Communauté de communes Vallons de Haute-Bretagne 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.