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Home to 1,389 people, this town lies in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Homes are affordable (B): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 4% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It also trails on jobs & income: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 6.2% unemployment. It skews young: only 14% 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, INSEE census 2023. Le Verger 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 Le Verger does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Verger 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.
Le Verger 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 Le Verger as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Mégalithe, dit Grès de Saint-Méen, in Talensac, 3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Verger.
Degrees are held by nearly a third of adults. People 65 and over make up 14% of the town. Line up the people of Le Verger by age and the one in the middle is 42.2.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Le Verger | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 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.
There is one general practitioner in Le Verger. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Le Verger come to 96 per 100 predicted. From 2016 to 2025, 66 residents of Le Verger died, against 69 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 4% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Le Verger is Centre hospitalier Regional Universitaire Rennes Pontchaillo, 11.6 mi away.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
The median disposable income was €26,120 a year per consumption unit, below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (€27,550) and close to compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 3.7% of working residents in Le Verger at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,284/m²: 35 houses and apartments sold in Le Verger between July 2023 and June 2026. House rents are put at about €10.16/m² a month. Houses accounted for nearly nine in ten sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,308/m² | 31 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, gardens and other places to visit in and near Le Verger. Best known first.
Nothing in Le Verger 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 Le Verger 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Verger | 1,389 | — | — | B | — | C |
| Talensac | 2,571 | 2.3 | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Bréal-sous-Montfort | 6,391 | 3.4 | A− | C | B | B |
| Cintré | 2,645 | 3.7 | — | B− | — | B |
| Mordelles | 7,911 | 4.1 | A | C | B+ | A− |
| Montfort-sur-Meu | 6,810 | 4.7 | A | C+ | A− | B+ |
| Breteil | 3,675 | 5.4 | A+ | B | A+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Verger has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.9 recorded violent incidents and 8.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,284/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Le Verger grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Le Verger is a commune of 1,389 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
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 8, 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.