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A town of 1,565 in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.
Quilly’s strongest is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car: 54% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Few residents are of retirement age: 11% are 65 or over.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Quilly 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 3 things Quilly does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Quilly 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.
Quilly has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Quilly as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye, in Saint-Gildas-des-Bois, 5.7 mi away.
18% 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 Quilly.
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town. 29% of adults hold a degree, lower than Loire-Atlantique’s towns (34%) and near compared French towns (30%). The middle age in Quilly is 35.5.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Quilly | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 25% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 32% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 11% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
4.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Loire-Atlantique’s towns (10.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Unemployment stands at 5.3%. Quilly has 150 jobs for 800 working residents, 0.2 per worker.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Quilly is Centre hospitalier Intercommunal Redon Carentoir, 14.8 mi away. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 102 per 100 expected, higher than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 67 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 69, 2% more. In Loire-Atlantique, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.2 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D− to B.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €11.29/m² a month, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (€12.75/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). House rents are put at about €9.35/m² a month. The market in Quilly: 52 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,000/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage, family days out and other places to visit in and near Quilly. Best known first.
Nothing in Quilly 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 Quilly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quilly | 1,565 | — | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Campbon | 4,058 | 3.3 | A | B | A | B+ |
| Sainte-Anne-sur-Brivet | 3,063 | 3.4 | — | B− | — | B− |
| Guenrouet | 3,673 | 3.4 | — | B | — | C− |
| Bouvron | 3,153 | 4.9 | — | B− | — | C+ |
| Saint-Gildas-des-Bois | 3,860 | 5.7 | A− | B | B | C |
| Plessé | 5,335 | 6.3 | B− | B+ | A− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Quilly has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7.3 recorded violent incidents and 11.2 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 Quilly grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Quilly is a commune of 1,565 people in the Communauté de communes Estuaire et Sillon. 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.