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A town of 6,362 in Morbihan, Brittany.
Plescop grades B+ overall: better than 71% of compared French towns, and #25 of 54 in Morbihan. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is safety (A−): an average of 3.2 recorded violent incidents and 11.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Plescop does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Plescop 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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The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Plescop; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1951.
2.2% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Plescop.
Recorded offenses in Plescop came to 127 in 2025. In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes in the town.
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 sexual violence and armed robbery, 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, 7.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses in Plescop sell for €3,157/m² and apartments for €3,500/m². The sales split: 52% houses, the rest apartments. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €11.53/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,157/m² | 142 |
| Apartments | €3,500/m² | 129 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Households’ median disposable income: €27,710 a year per consumption unit. Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, near Morbihan’s towns (8.7%) and lower than compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 3.8% of working residents in Plescop went to work by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to prehistory. Homes from before 1919 make up 2.2% of the total, below both Morbihan’s towns (6.1%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
7 GPs practise in Plescop. Its care home for older people (24 places) counts its residents as Plescop’s; allowing for it, deaths were 9% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 492 residents of Plescop died, against 514 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 4% fewer. At birth, a girl in Morbihan can expect 85.4 years and a boy 79.2 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Results rank its schools #49 of 62 in Morbihan. The town’s pupils have a collège 0.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Anne FrankNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 125 | 92%−2 pts |
| Lycée Charles de GaulleNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 309 | 96%−2 pts |
| Lycée Notre-Dame le Ménimur PrivateBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 107 | 100%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, about level with compared French towns (22%) and below Morbihan’s towns (27%). Children under 15 make up 14% of residents. Half the people of Plescop are older than 44.5.
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
| Plescop | Morbihan median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 11% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Morbihan median and France median: the median of compared communes
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Plescop; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Luzurgan: Photo: Rosescreen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Allée couverte: Photo: Milca56 · CC BY-SA 4.0
3 notable people were born in Plescop.
Georginio Rutter: Egghead06, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mélanie Auffret: MisterHP7, CC BY-SA 4.0
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It grades A− for safety, #11 of 54 in Morbihan. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 41 burglaries and 28 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 58% of compared French towns and #49 of 62 in Morbihan. 96% of 309 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Charles de Gaulle in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.51/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Plescop grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Morbihan, Brittany
Plescop is a commune of 6,362 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Golfe du Morbihan - Vannes Agglomération. 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.
