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BrévainvilleLoir-et-Cher

With 159 residents, it is a town in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire.

Is Brévainville a good place to live?

With fewer than 1,000 residents, Brévainville falls below the line for grades. 36% of homes here are second homes.

What makes Brévainville stand out

The one thing Brévainville does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Église Saint-Médard
Église Saint-Médard · Inscrit · Photo: Kelson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brévainville’s story

Brévainville in pictures

Brévainville has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.

The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1889.

45% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1889First protected: Dolmen dit Les Grosses Pierres
  • 1948Most recently protected: Église Saint-Médard
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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Brévainville.

History

Brévainville keeps more of its old housing than Loir-et-Cher’s towns or compared French towns: 45% built before 1919

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

Brévainville has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level. Among the classé monuments here is Dolmen dit Les Grosses Pierres. Its heritage reaches back to prehistory.

2historic monuments

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé1
Inscrit1

Among them · Classé

Prehistory
oldest protected part
1889
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Who lives here

Children make up only 12% of Brévainville, fewer than in both Loir-et-Cher’s towns and compared French towns

People aged 15 to 24 are nearly a tenth of the population. A quarter of residents are 65 or over, lower than Loir-et-Cher’s towns (30%) yet higher than compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up 16% of adults.

49.8median age
BrévainvilleLoir-et-Cher medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma19%
CAP or BEP37%
Baccalauréat23%
Higher education16%

Women and men · all residents

47% women, 53% men

About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loir-et-Cher 52.4%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Brévainville
BrévainvilleLoir-et-Cher medianFrance median
Under 1512%15%17%
15–248.1%8.9%11%
25–4422%19%23%
45–6434%27%26%
65+25%30%22%
No diploma19%25%19%
CAP or BEP37%30%26%
Baccalauréat23%16%18%
Higher education16%24%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Loir-et-Cher median and France median: the median of compared communes

Work & commute

More people in Brévainville are out of work than in Loir-et-Cher’s towns or across compared French towns: 17.5%

The census found 4.5% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Half of residents lived on more than €24,390 a year per consumption unit, about level with Loir-et-Cher’s towns (€24,980) and below compared French towns (€25,970).

4%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving82%
On foot3%
Public transport1%
Bicycle0%
Motorbike or scooter0%
0
jobs based in Brévainville, 0.3 per working resident
17.5%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,390
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
13%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Renting in Brévainville costs less than in both Loir-et-Cher’s towns and compared French towns, at an estimated advertised €9.03/m² a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

House rents are put at about €7.29/m² a month. Sales in Brévainville from July 2023 to June 2026: 10 houses and apartments.

€9.03/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Brévainville€9.03/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Loir-et-Cher median€10.23/m²
€9.03/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.10 to €11.48/m² a month)
€7.29/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Brévainville

12pages on Brévainville

Landmarks

Brévainville has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.

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Photo credits

Dolmen dit Les Grosses Pierres: Photo: Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement · Public domain · Église Saint-Médard: Photo: Kelson · CC BY-SA 3.0

Famous people from Brévainville

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Brévainville yet.

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Brévainville’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Loir-et-Cher →
Cloyes-les-Trois-RivièresChâteaudunVald'YerreBeauce la RomaineSaint-OuenVendômeCloyes-les-Trois-RivièresChâteaudunVald'YerreBeauce la RomaineSaint-OuenVendômeBrévainville
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Brévainville159—————
Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières Eure-et-Loir5,6073.4BAA−B−
Châteaudun Eure-et-Loir12,8309.2B+A−DB
Vald'Yerre Eure-et-Loir3,60912BAA−C−
Beauce la Romaine3,34112—A+—B−
Saint-Ouen3,04113AA−BA+
Vendôme15,75814B−BC−A−

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Brévainville

Commune in Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire

Brévainville is a commune of 159 people in the Communauté de communes du Perche et Haut Vendômois. 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

Population
159 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes du Perche et Haut Vendômois
Département
Loir-et-Cher (41)
Région
Centre-Val de Loire
Area
6.3 sq mi (16.2 km²)
INSEE code
41026

Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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.