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It is a town of 1,350 residents in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Getting around depends on the car: 67% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Incomes are on the low side (C+): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 7.7% unemployment. Homes sell for a median €2,181/m²: 70 m² comes to 5.8 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Brocéliande Communauté. Just nearly one in ten residents are 65 or older.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Treffendel 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 Treffendel does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Treffendel 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.
Treffendel has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Treffendel 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, 5.9 mi away.
16% 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 Treffendel.
36% of adults hold a degree, between Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (39%) and compared French towns (30%). Over-65s are nearly a tenth of the population. At 36.4, the median resident of Treffendel sits in the middle of the age range.
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ille-et-Vilaine 51.2%, France 51.8%.
| Treffendel | Ille-et-Vilaine median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 24% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 9.3% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 39% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ille-et-Vilaine median and France median: the median of compared communes
7.7% of the labour force were unemployed, close to Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (7.4%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). Bus, tram or train carried 3.9% of working residents in Treffendel to work at the census. At the census, 4.3% of working residents in Treffendel 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 €2,181/m²: 36 houses and apartments sold in Treffendel between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,181/m² | 36 |
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 62 residents of Treffendel died, against 71 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% fewer. Life expectancy in Ille-et-Vilaine: 86 years for women and 80.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 87 per 100 expected, above Ille-et-Vilaine’s towns (80) and close to compared French towns (88).
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
More of the graded crimes in Treffendel were criminal damage than anything else (2025). Violence against people averaged 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 9.4. Recorded offenses in the town came to 7 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, sexual violence, burglary, 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, 87.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Treffendel 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 Treffendel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treffendel | 1,350 | — | — | B− | — | B− |
| Plélan-le-Grand | 4,076 | 4.9 | B | B− | B− | B |
| Talensac | 2,571 | 5.8 | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Iffendic | 4,609 | 6 | — | B+ | — | A− |
| Bréal-sous-Montfort | 6,391 | 6.6 | A− | C | B | B |
| Montfort-sur-Meu | 6,810 | 7.1 | A | C+ | A− | B+ |
| Cintré | 2,645 | 7.7 | — | B− | — | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Treffendel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,181/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Treffendel grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany
Treffendel is a commune of 1,350 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
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.