Photo: Kev22 · CC BY-SA 4.0Pléneuf-Val-André is older than 99% of compared French towns: a median age of 64.4
Three in five households are headed by a retired person, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Pléneuf-Val-André counted 3,988 residents and 2,210 households at the 2023 Census. Put another way, about one in 17: 5.8% of households are single parents. Compared with other places, households in social housing are scarce here: 5%, fewer than in 86% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Côtes-d'Armor 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 Pléneuf-Val-André
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 3,070 second homes and occasional dwellings in Pléneuf-Val-André, 55% of its 5,570 homes: higher than in 98% of compared French towns. 62% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Pléneuf-Val-André’s residents are under 64.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 48% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 15% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A larger share of second homes than 98% of compared French towns: 55%
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
Without a car: one household in 14, against 11% in the median compared French town. Here, 5.1% of homes stand empty. Households without a car are rarer here than in 72% of compared French towns. Against that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
Since 2012, Pléneuf-Val-André has changed by −2%, slower than 77% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +3% in Côtes-d'Armor. Here the change came as ±0% to 2017, then −2% to 2023.
48% of residents are 65 or over, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Pléneuf-Val-André 64.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 5.9% here and 11% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
12% of households are couples with children, below 98% of compared French towns
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 Côtes-d'Armor median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 1.8 people in the average household. More one-person households than in four fifths of compared French towns: 43%. The usual figure: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
€29,850 a year is the median standard of living here
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 midpoint of living standards here is €29,850 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 84% of compared French towns. 9.0% of residents live below the poverty line INSEE uses.
Households headed by a manual worker: 4.3%, a lower share than 98% 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 census found that one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in Pléneuf-Val-André. 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).
Only 2.4% of residents are immigrants in Pléneuf-Val-André
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.
The figure for foreign nationals is 1.2% in Pléneuf-Val-André and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share lower than in 88% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Côtes-d'Armor has 2.7%. In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Pléneuf-Val-André sits below 99% of compared French towns for single residents (17%)
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
Married people make up 52% and PACS partners 4.3%, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 13% are widowed. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
A larger share of graduates of higher education than 80% of compared French towns: 40%
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
Adults with no qualification: 14%, below nearly four fifths of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 3,965 to 4,012 people: this is the 2nd oldest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Le Plessis-Belleville (37.2), the youngest, and Erquy (64.9), the oldest.
1 of 6 neighbors are older than Pléneuf-Val-André
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 Pléneuf-Val-André
What is the population of Pléneuf-Val-André?
3,988 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% fewer than in 2012 (4,063).
How old are Pléneuf-Val-André’s residents?
The median age is 64.4, older than 99% of compared French towns. 10% are under 18 and 48% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pléneuf-Val-André?
3,070, with occasional dwellings: 55% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pléneuf-Val-André?
INSEE counts 95 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 49 foreign nationals (1.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pléneuf-Val-André?
€29,850 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 9.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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