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Home to 1,002 people, this town lies in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 27% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 50% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. La Noë-Blanche 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 La Noë-Blanche does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Noë-Blanche 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.
La Noë-Blanche 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 La Noë-Blanche as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix du cimetière, in Bain-de-Bretagne, 4.2 mi away.
17% 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 La Noë-Blanche.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to La Noë-Blanche is Centre hospitalier Chateaubriant, 17.6 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 60 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 76, 27% more. 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,541/m², below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (€2,729/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Sales in La Noë-Blanche from July 2023 to June 2026: 37 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,541/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income was €24,370 a year per consumption unit, below both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (€27,550) and compared French towns (€25,970). On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 5.7% of commuters travelled at the census. 6.5% of the labour force are out of work.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Those 65 and older account for 17% of residents. The age that splits La Noë-Blanche in two is 43.3. The share of residents under 15 is 18%.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| La Noë-Blanche | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in La Noë-Blanche 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 La Noë-Blanche 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Noë-Blanche | 1,002 | — | — | A | — | D− |
| Bain-de-Bretagne | 7,674 | 4.1 | B+ | B | C− | C |
| Guipry-Messac | 7,354 | 4.3 | B− | A− | A− | C− |
| Grand-Fougeray | 2,584 | 5 | — | A | — | C |
| Pléchâtel | 2,833 | 5.9 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Bourg-des-Comptes | 3,411 | 8.8 | — | B | — | C+ |
| Pipriac | 3,859 | 9.2 | A− | B+ | A | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Noë-Blanche has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7.6 recorded violent incidents and 11.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so La Noë-Blanche grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
La Noë-Blanche is a commune of 1,002 people in the Communauté de communes Bretagne porte de Loire 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 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.