Fewer flats than 99% of compared French towns: 2.6%
With second homes at 9.6%, Brieulles-sur-Bar is ahead of 87% of compared French towns on that count. 1.1% of households rent social housing (HLM), or about one in 91. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are scarce here: 18%, fewer than in 77% of compared French towns. The town had 224 residents in 95 households at the 2023 census.
Throughout this page, the Ardennes median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
What stands out about the people of Brieulles-sur-Bar
Growing fast
Brieulles-sur-Bar had 182 residents at the 2012 census and 224 in 2023, up 23%: faster growth than in 93% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A growing town: +23% since 2012, faster than 93% of compared French towns
Residents at INSEE’s last three censuses, each recast in the 2026 commune boundaries. France has no yearly estimate by commune between censuses.
2012 to 2023
2017 to 2023
The first five years brought +19%; the six to 2023, +3%. For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Ardennes town −9%.
Brieulles-sur-Bar sits below 92% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (8%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Brieulles-sur-Bar 44. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 44, Brieulles-sur-Bar is younger than 50% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Ardennes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
More couples with children than 75% of compared French towns: 30%
A household is everyone who shares a main home (résidence principale). Household types come from INSEE’s fuller sample of a quarter of census forms.
Against the Ardennes median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The share of couples with children in the typical compared French town is 25%. There are 2.4 people in the average household. Brieulles-sur-Bar sits close to the norm on one-person households: 35%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of households without a car than 78% of compared French towns: 6.3%
Every home the census counted: main residences, second homes and occasional dwellings (INSEE counts them together), and empty homes. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
All homes · share of homes
Type of home
Cars per household · share of households
The share of empty homes is 7.8%, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. 7.4% of households moved in less than two years ago; 24% have been in their home 30 years or more. In the typical compared French town, 11% of households have no car.
A median of €25,100 a year per consumption unit
The standard of living (niveau de vie) is a household’s disposable income after taxes and benefits, divided by its consumption units (UC) to allow for its size and make-up: 1 for the first adult, 0.5 for each other person 14 or older, 0.3 for each child under 14.
Medians of compared communes. Source: INSEE, Filosofi 2023.
The median standard of living in Brieulles-sur-Bar is €25,100 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 59% of compared French towns.
30% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 99% of compared French towns
Households by the socio-professional group (PCS) of their reference person, INSEE’s own categories. Jobs and commuting are on the Work & commute page.
Households by reference person’s group · share of households
The share of households headed by a retired person trails 64% of compared French towns: 30%. Against that, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 85% of compared French towns: 2.7% of residents are immigrants
INSEE publishes two measures, which overlap but aren’t the same. Neither is the UK’s “born abroad”.
Share of residents · census 2023
Immigrant (immigré)
Born abroad, not French at birth. Someone stays an immigrant after becoming French. A French citizen born abroad (for example in Algeria before 1962) is not one.
Foreign national (étranger)
Not a French citizen today, wherever born. A child born in France to foreign parents can be a foreign national without being an immigrant.
Foreign nationals: 1.8% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%. The median compared commune in Ardennes has 6.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 85% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents: 18%, a lower share than 98% of compared French towns
Residents 15 and over by how they live: the census asks both the legal status and whether people live as a couple.
Residents 15 and over · share
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Brieulles-sur-Bar has 48%. Set beside that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
24% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 72% of compared French towns
Highest diploma of residents 15 and over who have left education, in French terms: the levels don’t map one-to-one to UK or U.S. ones.
Highest diploma · 15 and over, out of education
Compared with 19% in the typical compared French town, 21% of adults out of school have no qualification here. The share of graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town is 30%.
Among 41 French towns of 224 to 2,582 people, the 16th youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Every neighbor is older than Brieulles-sur-Bar
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Census 2023. INSEE’s census is a rolling survey: a fifth of small communes each year, 8% of homes in large ones each year. “2023” pools the surveys of 2021 to 2025, so the figures describe the town around 2023, not on one day.
- Medians of compared communes. The comparisons are the median of the département’s compared communes and of France’s (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median: not the total for the département or for France, which large cities pull towards their own figures.
- Immigrants and foreign nationals. INSEE’s two measures: an immigrant was born abroad without French nationality; a foreign national isn’t French today. Neither is a count of people born abroad, which INSEE doesn’t publish by commune.
- Second homes. Homes used for holidays or weekends, with occasional dwellings (kept for work, for example), which INSEE counts together. Their owners are counted where they live, not here.
- Standard of living. INSEE’s Filosofi: disposable income per consumption unit, from tax and benefit files, 2023. The poverty rate is the share of residents below 60% of France’s median. Not published for the smallest communes.
- What France doesn’t ask. The French census asks nothing about ethnicity, religion, language or health, so this page has no such section.
Questions about who lives in Brieulles-sur-Bar
What is the population of Brieulles-sur-Bar?
224 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 23% more than in 2012 (182).
How old are Brieulles-sur-Bar’s residents?
The median age is 44, younger than 50% of compared French towns. 25% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Brieulles-sur-Bar?
11, with occasional dwellings: 9.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Brieulles-sur-Bar?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.7% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Brieulles-sur-Bar?
€25,100 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970). Source: INSEE, Filosofi.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, ages, households, homes, marital status, diplomas, immigrants, foreign nationals, employment), 2026 geography · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (standard of living, poverty) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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