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1,286 people live in this town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Parigné’s best grade is for cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around depends on the car (D): half of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The rest of its grades are middling: B for health and C+ for jobs & income. Homes change hands at a median €1,816/m².
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 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Parigné 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 Parigné 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.
Parigné has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Parigné does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Parigné as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Anciens celliers, in Landéan, 2 mi away.
16% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Parigné is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Parigné.
The unemployment rate comes to 6.9%. For its 600 residents in work, Parigné has 250 jobs: 0.5 each. Half of residents lived on more than €24,810 a year per consumption unit, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (€27,550) and compared French towns (€25,970).
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.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 44 homes in Parigné.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,816/m² | 44 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
237 deaths in Parigné between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 188: 26% above. At birth, a girl in Ille-et-Vilaine can expect 86 years and a boy 80.9 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. The nearest emergency department to Parigné is Centre hospitalier de Fougeres, 4.4 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 · The care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (11%) and close to compared French towns (11%). The share of residents under 15 is 17%. Parigné has a median age of 45.9.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Parigné | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 21% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
2025 saw 0 offenses recorded in Parigné in the categories behind the grade.
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
Heritage and gardens in and near Parigné. Best known first.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Parigné as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Parigné is a commune of 1,286 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Fougères Agglomération. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parigné | 1,286 | — | — | A− | — | B |
| Lécousse | 3,530 | 4.2 | A+ | B | A− | A+ |
| Fougères | 20,307 | 4.7 | B− | B | D | B+ |
| Louvigné-du-Désert | 3,346 | 5.4 | A | A | B | B |
| Maen Roch | 5,088 | 7.3 | A | B+ | B+ | B+ |
| Saint-James Manche | 5,018 | 9.9 | A− | A | A− | B− |
| Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Manche | 5,770 | 11 | A− | A | C | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Parigné has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.9 recorded violent incidents and 8.8 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 Parigné grades A− for cost of living.
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.