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Living in Cancale

In Cancale, rents across existing tenancies average €10.30 per m² a month (2024) and unemployment is 8.1% (2022).

Population density was 449.8 people per km² in 2023. The city had 6 schools in 2026. There were 70.5 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. The foreign population count was 66 at the start of 2023. The unemployment rate was 8.11% at the end of 2022. Cancale is in France; its population was 5,672 at the start of 2023. Annual NO₂ was 7.05 µg/m³ in 2024. The city covered 12.6 km² in 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2429 sources

Population5,672people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,570EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent10.3EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 11% belowOfficial source · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org
Unemployment rate8.11%country median 11.0% — 26% belowOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime3,962incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 16% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean8.09µg/m³country median 8.5 — 4% belowOfficial source · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.

Cheaper rent than 68% of French cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 80% of French cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 68% of French cities that publish it.

Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Cancale?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in FranceNational rates and thresholds that apply in Cancale.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Cancale?

Average net cold rent is 10.3 EUR/m² per month (2024), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

  • Average net rent (nettokalt): 10.3 EUR/m²/month · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org24
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Cancale recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43
Mobile plan, 10 GB€20
Net rent across major citiesCancale highlighted among comparable cities
Net rent across major cities with Cancale highlighted

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Cancale€10.30
Show the other 6 cities
Bordeaux€15.99
Lille€15.76
Strasbourg€15.57
Montpellier€15.49
Rennes€14.87
Nantes€14.50
MetricValuePeriodSource
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited42.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange Livebox Fibre17Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan16Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)196 %31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Dwellings5,176 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Main residence dwellings2,862 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)10.3 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2024www.observatoires-des-loyers.org24Official

Is Cancale a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker57%strong on work, weak on safety · range 49–65%
Skilled employee57%strong on work, weak on safety · range 49–65%
Student52%strong on cost, weak on work · range 45–59%
Family48%strong on family, weak on cost · range 41–55%
Retirement57%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 48–66%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 618 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10.3 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: 2024

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Cancale?

The unemployment rate is about 8.1 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 8.11 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Cancale is 8.1%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability97.66 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability97.66 %31 Mar 2026Independent ARCEP municipal count of premises eligible for the >=1 Gbit/s fixed advertised-speed class, divided by the ARCEP type=all municipal premises denominator. This is availability/eligibility, not adoption, measured speed, FTTH-only coverage or mobile coverage.4Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,570 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr23Official
Unemployment rate8.11 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9Official

What does a salary buy in Cancale?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

regional median gross pay: €2,570 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,280of €1,961 take-home
  • Rent
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Left over
Line-by-line breakdown and sources
Each month€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions.€1,961
Rent, 60 m²€10.30/m² · official · observatoires-des-loyers.org · 2024-12-31− €618
Internet€43 · official · Orange Livebox Fibre · 2026-09-30− €43
Mobile plan€20 · official · Orange 100GB mobile plan · 2026-09-30− €20
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish€1,280
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Cancale Salary needed to live in Cancale

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Cancale. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information
Open the France service overview

Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Cancale. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools6 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.19Official · commune
Primary schools3 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools5 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 3 to 16. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: UPE2A (unités pédagogiques pour élèves allophones nouvellement arrivés) + UPE2A-NSA variant. How to enrol a child (education.gouv.fr).

A country-wide rule for France; Cancale's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents70.52 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence7Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Cancale when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Cancale?

Police recorded about 3,962 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)3

Recorded crime across major citiesCancale highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Cancale highlighted

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Lille13,488
Lyon13,026
Bordeaux12,429
Marseille11,857
Paris10,987
Montpellier9,636
Toulouse8,875
Rennes8,241
Strasbourg7,791
Nantes7,704
Nice7,577
Cancale3,962
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents3,962 incidents per 100,000country median 4,74031 Dec 2025Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)3Official

Mobility and administration

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport3 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights15Official
Nearest airportDNR3 Aug 2026OurAirports18Official
Distance to nearest airport19 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports18Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Cancale. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Contrat d’intégration républicaine (CIR) — Integration course

État français and OFII

For eligible non-EU foreign residents.

FrenchIn Person
Open official information

DIAN language-training offer finder — Other

Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN

For people seeking French-language training.

FrenchIn Person, Online
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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Cancale.

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 8.09 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Cancale?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.1 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³.

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

  • PM2.5 — annual mean: 8.09 µg/m³ · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1
Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C
Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm
Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours
Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in FranceAnnual PM2.5 in Cancale is 8.1 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

MetricValuePeriodSource
NO₂ — annual mean7.05 µg/m³country median 14.820242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official
NO₂ — latest reading8.1 µg/m³15 Jul 2026Latest valid NO2 hourly station observation on the official LCSQA E2 current-day extract, mapped to the exact INSEE centre through an exact normalized station-name crosswalk to EEA station metadata.12Official
PM10 — annual mean16.3 µg/m³country median 14.220242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official
PM2.5 — annual mean8.09 µg/m³country median 8.520242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official
Average daytime high by monthJan 9.1 · Feb 9.8 · Mar 12.2 · Apr 14.5 · May 17.3 · Jun 20.2 · Jul 22.1 · Aug 22.3 · Sep 20.3 · Oct 16.5 · Nov 12.4 · Dec 9.7 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan 3.8 · Feb 3.6 · Mar 4.9 · Apr 6.2 · May 9.1 · Jun 11.8 · Jul 13.6 · Aug 13.7 · Sep 11.8 · Oct 9.7 · Nov 6.5 · Dec 4.2 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan 6.5 · Feb 6.7 · Mar 8.5 · Apr 10.3 · May 13.2 · Jun 16 · Jul 17.8 · Aug 18 · Sep 16 · Oct 13.1 · Nov 9.5 · Dec 6.9 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 64 · Feb 56 · Mar 47.6 · Apr 53.9 · May 56 · Jun 54.1 · Jul 46.1 · Aug 58.3 · Sep 60.2 · Oct 81.3 · Nov 89 · Dec 85.5 mm1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by monthJan 68 · Feb 91 · Mar 132 · Apr 178 · May 202 · Jun 207 · Jul 220 · Aug 201 · Sep 170 · Oct 114 · Nov 79 · Dec 65 hours1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading
Annual PM2.5 over time4 published observations, 2021–2024

Annual PM2.5 fell 19.1% between 2021 and 2024, from 10.0 to 8.1.

Similar climate. In France: Le Havre ±1.2 °C. Elsewhere: Portsmouth (United Kingdom) ±0.7 °C, Saanich (Canada) ±1.3 °C, Bexley (United Kingdom) ±0.6 °C, Westminster (United Kingdom) ±0.6 °C, Islington (United Kingdom) ±0.6 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Cancale?

The published population was 5,672 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area12.61 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte20Official
Foreign residents66 people1 Jan 2023INSEE RP2023 — population par âge, sexe et nationalité, commune10Official
Population density449.8 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte20Official
Population5,672 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8Official

International community in Cancale

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Population resident in France excluding Mayotte; INSEE RP2023 NAT; total age and sex · 2023 Census

Published groupPeopleShare
Total5,672100.0%
Français5,60698.8%
Etranger661.2%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source11

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)14Official

Alternatives for people set on Cancale

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Pleurtuit as a Cancale alternative in the same region

19 km away, better on 1 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Rent: €12.15/m² (2025) Pleurtuit vs €10.30/m² (2024) Cancaleno percentage
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,823 Pleurtuit vs 3,962 Cancale−29%
  • Residents: 7,167 Pleurtuit vs 5,672 Cancale+26%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% Pleurtuit vs 8.1% Cancalesame level
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,570 Pleurtuit vs €2,570 Cancalesame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 8.1 µg/m³ Pleurtuit vs 8.1 µg/m³ Cancalesame level
Full comparisonMore about Pleurtuit

Cities near Cancale

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Saint-Malo 13.1 km away
Rent
10.3 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
Dol-de-Bretagne 16.0 km away
Rent
10.51 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Dinard 16.2 km away
Rent
12.03 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Pleurtuit 18.6 km away
Rent
12.15 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

Other cities in France to compare with Cancale, nearest in population first.

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Bédarrides5,671 residentsLa Roquette-sur-Siagne5,669 residentsGan5,676 residentsSaint-Georges-d'Orques5,676 residentsPouzauges5,668 residentsSaint-Xandre5,677 residents

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Cancale?

The published population was 5,672 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Cancale?

Average net cold rent is 10.3 EUR/m² per month (2024), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 721 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.observatoires-des-loyers.org.

Is the air quality good in Cancale?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.1 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation..

How safe is Cancale?

Police recorded about 3,962 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026).

What is the unemployment rate in Cancale?

The unemployment rate is about 8.1 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Cancale?

The median gross salary is 2,570 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Cancale a good place to live?

Cancale may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Cancale?

Saint-Malo, Dol-de-Bretagne, Dinard, Pleurtuit are near Cancale. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people are in the Français citizenship group in Cancale?

The official citizenship distribution records 5,606 people (98.8%) in the source-defined population for 2023 Census. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Cancale, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version a1fd93d3d3dbf5bcb87c91ea8b66a86b]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/cancale/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Cancale, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {a1fd93d3d3dbf5bcb87c91ea8b66a86b},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/cancale/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
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