In Berneuil, 0.2% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 99% of compared French towns
Set against 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 3.2% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Berneuil. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 6%, fewer than in 94% of compared French towns. The town had 1,169 residents in 520 households at the 2023 census. In Berneuil, 14% of households are single parents.
Throughout this page, the Charente-Maritime 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.
Since 2012, Berneuil has changed by +4%, slower than 52% 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
Over those years, the median Charente-Maritime town changed +8% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +2%, then +2% to 2023.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 90% of compared French towns: 8.3%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Berneuil 44.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 19% here and 22% in the typical compared French town. At the same time, the median age in Berneuil is 44.1, higher than in just over half of compared French towns. Set beside that, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
Below 70% of compared French towns: 31% of households are one person living alone
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 Charente-Maritime median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. To put it in context, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. In Berneuil, 26% of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town.
Below 98% of compared French towns: 3.2% of households have no car
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
In the typical compared French town, 6.7% of homes stand empty; in Berneuil, 8.7%. Second homes make up about one in 24 here (4.1%). Elsewhere, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town.
Standard of living at the median: €24,620 a year
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.
Half of Berneuil’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €24,620 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 65% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a manual worker than 93% of compared French towns: 23%
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
Here 24% of households are headed by a retired person, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 32%. The wider picture: 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 84% of compared French towns: 2.8% 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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Berneuil has 2%. The benchmark for immigrants in the typical compared French town: 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 91% of compared French towns, at 20%
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
Just over two in five residents 15 and over are married; in the typical compared French town the figure is 43%. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
Berneuil sits below 79% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (14%)
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
The share of graduates of higher education trails 63% of compared French towns: 26%. The wider picture: nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 16th youngest of 41 French towns of 1,169 to 2,582 people
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.
Berneuil is younger than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berneuil | 44.1 | 19% | 4.1% | 2.8% |
| Pons 4,343 · 5.8 mi | 50.3 | 30% | 3.1% | 7.1% |
| Chaniers 3,651 · 6 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 4% | 2% |
| Saintes 25,363 · 6.5 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 5.5% |
| Gémozac 3,052 · 6.9 mi | 51.9 | 32% | 7.4% | 3.1% |
| Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux 2,843 · 9.5 mi | 51.3 | 30% | 2.4% | 2.1% |
| Val-de-Cognac 3,471 · 13.4 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 3.9% | 3.1% |
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 Berneuil
What is the population of Berneuil?
1,169 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (1,121).
How old are Berneuil’s residents?
The median age is 44.1, older than 51% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Berneuil?
25, with occasional dwellings: 4.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Berneuil?
INSEE counts 32 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.8% of residents, and 24 foreign nationals (2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Berneuil?
€24,620 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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