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1,021 people call this town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany home.
Pupils here do better than most: brevet results a point above the expected rate. Health lags (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 15% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,663/m²: 70 m² comes to 4.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Vallons de Haute-Bretagne Communauté.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Mernel 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 one thing Mernel does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mernel 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.
Mernel 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 Mernel as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix du cimetière en pierre, in Val d'Anast, 1.1 mi away.
11% 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 Mernel.
Half of residents lived on more than €25,440 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (€27,550). At the census, 5.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Also worth knowing: jobs based in Mernel number 200, against 500 residents in work (0.4 per worker). The unemployment rate comes to 5.4%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 8.7 mi to the nearest lycée. The closest collège is 1.2 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du QuerponNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 66 | 94%+1 pt |
| Collège Sainte-Marie PrivateBest against expectations: a point above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 50 | 96%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 88 residents of Mernel died, against 86 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 2% more. Adjusted mortality in the town: 102 deaths for every 100 expected. Life expectancy in Ille-et-Vilaine: 86 years for women and 80.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. 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.
The median price, €1,663/m², comes from 36 sales of houses and apartments in Mernel from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,663/m² | 36 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
One in ten residents are 15 to 24, below both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up nearly a fifth of the town. The median resident of Mernel is 44.8 years old.
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Mernel | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
The commonest graded crime in Mernel was armed robbery (2025). Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 7.5 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 7.2.
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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 100.0% of the index here.
Nothing in Mernel 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 Mernel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mernel | 1,021 | — | — | A− | — | C− |
| Val d'Anast | 3,930 | 1.8 | A− | A− | A | C |
| Guignen | 4,175 | 5.3 | A− | B | A+ | C− |
| Pipriac | 3,859 | 6.2 | A− | B+ | A | D |
| Guer Morbihan | 6,208 | 7.4 | A | A− | C+ | B |
| Guipry-Messac | 7,354 | 8.2 | B− | A− | A− | C− |
| Plélan-le-Grand | 4,076 | 9.1 | B | B− | B− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Mernel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A−, better than 85% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,663/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Mernel grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Mernel is a commune of 1,021 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 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.