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Home to 2,184 people, this town lies in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Buying 70 m² at the median €2,210/m² takes 5.8 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Brocéliande Communauté. Walkability is its weak spot — three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Over-65s are only 14% of the population.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saint-Thurial 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 Saint-Thurial 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.
Saint-Thurial has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Saint-Thurial does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Thurial as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château du Molant, in Bréal-sous-Montfort, 5.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Thurial 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 Saint-Thurial.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8.9% of the population. 14% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%). Among adults, 38% have a degree.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Thurial | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 14% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
At the census, 6.4% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (12.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. After tax and benefits, the median income is €26,930 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 102 residents of Saint-Thurial died, against 114 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Thurial is Centre hospitalier Regional Universitaire Rennes Pontchaillo, 12.6 mi away. In Ille-et-Vilaine, women can expect to live 86 years and men 80.9 (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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
62 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Thurial, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,210/m². The sales split: 79% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,206/m² | 49 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Saint-Thurial was burglary (2025). On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.5 violent offenses and 8.7 graded property crimes a year. Recorded offenses in the town came to 18 in 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, 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, 55.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
One notable person was born in Saint-Thurial.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Saint-Thurial is a commune of 2,184 people in the Communauté de communes Brocéliande 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Thurial | 2,184 | — | — | B− | — | B− |
| Bréal-sous-Montfort | 6,391 | 3.3 | A− | C | B | B |
| Goven | 4,359 | 4.5 | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Talensac | 2,571 | 4.8 | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Mordelles | 7,911 | 5.1 | A | C | B+ | A− |
| Cintré | 2,645 | 5.7 | — | B− | — | B |
| Chavagne | 4,709 | 6.8 | A+ | C | A | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Thurial has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 8 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 €2,210/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Thurial 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.