A lower share of flats than 97% of compared French towns, at 4.3%
3.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. On the census count, nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24. Households without a car are rarer here than in 96% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 1,223 people lived in Saint-Barnabé, in 560 households.
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.
Slower growth than 82% of compared French towns: Saint-Barnabé changed by −3% since 2012
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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was −1%; from 2017 to 2023, −2%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Côtes-d'Armor town +3%.
Saint-Barnabé is older than 76% of compared French towns: a median age of 48.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Saint-Barnabé 48.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 27% of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%.
In Saint-Barnabé, 7.2% of households are single parents, fewer than in 88% 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
A third of households are one person living alone (typical compared French town: 35%). In the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households is 10%. Couples with children make up about one in four here (23%).
Saint-Barnabé sits below 84% of compared French towns for households in social housing (5.4%)
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
Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 5.8% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 35%. Typically, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. 3.1% of homes are second homes, more than in 63% of compared French towns. Empty homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 7.2%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €24,550 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 median standard of living in Saint-Barnabé is €24,550 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 66% of compared French towns.
Saint-Barnabé sits above 96% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (25%)
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
By its share of households headed by a retired person (40%), Saint-Barnabé is above 83% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 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 86% of compared French towns: 2.6% 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.
The median compared commune in Côtes-d'Armor has 2.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 86% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. In Saint-Barnabé, 2.4% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
49% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 87% 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
Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of single residents in Saint-Barnabé comes in at 23%. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Graduates of higher education make up 18% in Saint-Barnabé, less than in 90% 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
The share of adults with no qualification trails 61% of compared French towns: 17%. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,223 to 2,582 people), the 15th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
2 of 6 neighbors are older than Saint-Barnabé
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 Saint-Barnabé
What is the population of Saint-Barnabé?
1,223 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,264).
How old are Saint-Barnabé’s residents?
The median age is 48.4, older than 76% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Barnabé?
19, with occasional dwellings: 3.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Barnabé?
INSEE counts 32 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 30 foreign nationals (2.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Barnabé?
€24,550 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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