Ploufragan ranks below 79% of compared French towns on households headed by a manager or professional: 5.7%
In the typical compared French town, the share of flats is 30%; Ploufragan has 20%. A quarter of residents are 65 or over. At 5.2%, the share of empty homes is lower than in 71% of compared French towns. This Côtes-d'Armor town counted 11,507 residents and 5,320 households at the 2023 Census.
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.
From 2012 to 2023, 64% of compared French towns grew faster than Ploufragan: +1%
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 Côtes-d'Armor town changed +3% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +2%, then ±0% to 2023.
Half of Ploufragan is over 47.3, older than 71% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Ploufragan 47.3. The median compared French town: 44.
At 11%, residents aged 15 to 24 sit close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%.
Ploufragan ranks below 63% of compared French towns on couples with children: 22%
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
On average, 2.1 people share a household. Higher than in 67% of compared French towns: 11% of households are single parents. The wider picture: a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. One-person households make up 36%, against 35% in the typical compared French town.
More households in social housing than 63% of compared French towns: 15%
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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 7.8% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 26%. Lower than in 56% of compared French towns: 1.8% of homes are second homes. For comparison, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. Without a car: one household in 10, against 11% in the median compared French town.
Median standard of living: €25,330 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €25,330 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 56% of compared French towns. 13.0% of residents live below the poverty line INSEE uses.
Households headed by a retired person: 36%, a higher share than 67% 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
Compared with 14% in the typical compared French town, 16% of households are headed by a manual worker here. The comparison figure for households headed by a retired person is 32% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A larger share of foreign nationals than 62% of compared French towns: 5.7%
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Côtes-d'Armor has 2.7%. Foreign nationals make up 4.3% in the typical compared French town. For Ploufragan, the census puts immigrants at 6.2%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Ploufragan ranks above 63% of compared French towns on married residents: 45%
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
On the census count, 26% of residents 15 and over are single. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
28% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 58% 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
At 18%, the share of adults with no qualification is lower than in 54% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 11,315 to 11,703 people, the 7th 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 Dugny (31.9), the youngest, and Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (55.2), the oldest.
Ploufragan is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Ploufragan
What is the population of Ploufragan?
11,507 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% more than in 2012 (11,346).
How old are Ploufragan’s residents?
The median age is 47.3, older than 71% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ploufragan?
100, with occasional dwellings: 1.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ploufragan?
INSEE counts 710 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 660 foreign nationals (5.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ploufragan?
€25,330 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 13.0% 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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