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A town of 2,101 in Morbihan, Brittany.
Ambon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 18% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €2,837/m², a 70 m² home costs 7.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Arc Sud Bretagne. Its strongest is schools (A): brevet results 4 points above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Ambon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ambon 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.
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Ambon has 5 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 4 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1925.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ambon.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 194 residents of Ambon died, against 165 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 18% more. The nearest emergency department to Ambon is Chba site de Vannes, 12.2 mi away. At birth, a girl in Morbihan can expect 85.4 years and a boy 79.2 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. The town has 7 family doctors.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
93.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Ambon, about level with Morbihan’s towns (93.2%) and above compared French towns (87.5%). No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 8.6 mi away. Collège pupils travel 2.1 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean RostandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 113 | 93%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Median disposable income comes to €27,650 a year per consumption unit. Jobs located in Ambon: 500, for 800 residents in work (0.6 each). 7.6% of the town’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
The median price, €2,837/m², comes from 89 sales of houses and apartments in Ambon from July 2023 to June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €11.08/m² a month. Houses were 93% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,837/m² | 83 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The 15-to-24 age group: 8.6%, lower than both Morbihan’s towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). Line up the people of Ambon by age and the one in the middle is 51.5. Over-65s are just over a quarter of the population.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Ambon | Morbihan median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Morbihan median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Ambon is Église Saint-Cyr et Sainte-Julitte. The protected list starts in the 12th century. 3 of the 5 are churches, chapels and other religious buildings.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The commonest graded crime in Ambon was theft from vehicles (2025). Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 4.6 cases of violence against people and 18.5 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). In all, 65 offenses reached the police record in the town 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 other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft, 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, 24.9% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Ambon has 5 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 4 inscrit, the second level.
Chapelle de Bavalan: Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Mille-Secours de Brouël: Photo: TeletubAstyanax · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fontaine Sainte-Julitte: Photo: Alex Verdon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Moulin à vent de Billion: Photo: Supergranpa · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Ambon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambon | 2,101 | — | — | C | C+ | D− |
| Muzillac | 5,089 | 3.1 | A | C | B+ | B− |
| Surzur | 5,211 | 4.4 | A− | C | A+ | B |
| Noyal-Muzillac | 2,548 | 5.2 | — | B− | — | B− |
| Theix-Noyalo | 8,500 | 7.4 | B+ | C | B | C |
| Sulniac | 3,852 | 7.9 | — | B | — | C |
| Questembert | 8,133 | 9.1 | A− | C+ | A− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 19 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 90% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,837/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.17/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ambon grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Morbihan, Brittany
Ambon is a commune of 2,101 people in the Communauté de communes Arc Sud Bretagne. 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 October 30, 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.