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A town of 3,379 in Morbihan, Brittany.
Évellys has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 9% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is cost of living (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Évellys does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Évellys 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.
Évellys has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Évellys: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1930.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Évellys.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Évellys is Chcb site Kerio, 7.9 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 302 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 330, 9% more. In Morbihan, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.4 years for women and 79.2 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. There is one general practitioner locally.
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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
The jobless rate is 7.7%. 4.0% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Morbihan’s towns (9.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €24,880 a year.
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.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.53/m² a month, lower than both Morbihan’s towns (€12.68/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €8.74/m² a month. Also worth knowing: among the homes sold, 99% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,527/m² | 154 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Évellys is Croix du 17e siècle. Its oldest listed monument dates from the 16th century. Homes from before 1919 make up just over a tenth of the total, above Morbihan’s towns (6.1%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Children under 15 make up 18%, above Morbihan’s towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Over-65s are just over a fifth of the population. Ages in Évellys split evenly at 44.6: half are older, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Évellys | Morbihan median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Morbihan median and France median: the median of compared communes
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3.8 violent offenses and 5.7 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Police and gendarmerie figures for Évellys show 40 offenses in 2025. Family violence topped the graded crimes in Évellys (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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 41.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Évellys: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
Croix du 17e siècle: Photo: XIIIfromTOKYO · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fontaine Sainte-Julitte et son enceinte: Photo: XIIIfromTOKYO · CC BY-SA 3.0
4 notable people were born in Évellys.
Ange Roussel: Tremomo, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Évellys | 3,379 | — | — | B+ | — | D |
| Moréac | 3,704 | 4.6 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Pluméliau-Bieuzy | 4,632 | 6 | B | C+ | A+ | C+ |
| Noyal-Pontivy | 3,606 | 6.2 | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Locminé | 4,773 | 6.6 | A− | C+ | B+ | A |
| Plumelin | 2,885 | 7 | — | B | — | D− |
| Pontivy | 14,640 | 7.7 | B− | B− | C− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Évellys has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Évellys grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Morbihan, Brittany
Évellys is a commune of 3,379 people in the Communauté de communes Centre Morbihan 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 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.
