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Population 3,224: a town in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
People here tend to be in good health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At €2,301/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 5.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Pays de Châteaugiron Communauté. It is hard to get around without a car (C): 54% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Only just over one in ten residents are 65 or over.
Figures: 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. Piré-Chancé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Piré-Chancé 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.
Piré-Chancé has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Piré-Chancé does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Piré-Chancé as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château, actuellement mairie, in Châteaugiron, 4.4 mi away.
27% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Piré-Chancé 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 Piré-Chancé.
Degrees are held by just over a third of adults. People 65 and over make up just over a tenth of the town, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 9.3% of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Piré-Chancé | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 30% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 12% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 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.
2 GPs practise in Piré-Chancé. The nearest emergency department to Piré-Chancé is Chru de Rennes site Hopital Sud, 11.6 mi away. 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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A.
Jobs located in Piré-Chancé: 500, for 1,650 residents in work (0.3 each). 5.3% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (7.4%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 5.9% of working residents in Piré-Chancé didn’t travel to work at all.
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 €2,301/m²: 104 houses and apartments sold in Piré-Chancé between July 2023 and June 2026. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €9.17/m² a month. Houses accounted for 93% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,291/m² | 97 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The police record for Piré-Chancé lists 18 offenses in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 2.4 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 4.9. Among the graded crimes here, the most frequent was burglary (2025).
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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 67.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage in and near Piré-Chancé. Best known first.
3 notable people were born in Piré-Chancé.
Léon Letort: Unknown - publicity shot over 100 years old, Public domain
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Piré-Chancé is a commune of 3,224 people in the Communauté de communes Pays de Châteaugiron 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piré-Chancé | 3,224 | — | — | B | — | A− |
| Châteaugiron | 10,845 | 4 | A+ | C+ | A− | A− |
| Janzé | 8,649 | 5.2 | A− | C+ | B− | B+ |
| Domloup | 3,877 | 5.9 | — | C+ | — | A− |
| Bais | 2,539 | 5.9 | — | A | — | B |
| Nouvoitou | 3,911 | 6 | A+ | C+ | A+ | A |
| Châteaubourg | 7,533 | 6.8 | A | C | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Piré-Chancé has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,301/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.63/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Piré-Chancé grades B 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 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.