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Some 1,738 people live in this town, in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Guipel’s strongest is cost of living (B+) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around depends on the car (C). Work and incomes lag (C+): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 6.9% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Guipel 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 Guipel 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.
Guipel 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 Guipel as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Montmuran, in Les Iffs, 6.3 mi away.
28% 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 Guipel.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,103/m²: 56 houses and apartments sold in Guipel between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses accounted for 95% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,104/m² | 53 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
32% of adults hold a degree, below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (39%) but above compared French towns (30%). People 65 and over make up 17% of the town. Half of Guipel is older than 40.1, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Guipel | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
The median disposable income was €25,460 a year per consumption unit, lower than Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (€27,550) and near compared French towns (€25,970). The unemployment rate comes to 6.9%. 6.3% of Guipel’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
There are 2 general practitioners in Guipel. The nearest emergency department to Guipel is Chp Saint Gregoire, 10.6 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 192 residents of Guipel died, against 153 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 25% more. Life expectancy at birth in Ille-et-Vilaine is 86 years for women and 80.9 for men (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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Nothing in Guipel 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 Guipel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guipel | 1,738 | — | — | B+ | — | B− |
| Tinténiac | 3,939 | 5.5 | B− | C+ | C | B |
| Melesse | 7,541 | 5.6 | A | C | B | B+ |
| Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné | 4,304 | 5.8 | A+ | B− | A | A− |
| La Mézière | 5,033 | 5.8 | A+ | C+ | A− | A+ |
| Gévezé | 6,061 | 6.1 | A | C | B+ | A |
| Combourg | 6,411 | 7.9 | B | C+ | B | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Guipel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.4 recorded violent incidents and 12 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 €2,103/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Guipel grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Guipel is a commune of 1,738 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) · 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.