42% of households are couples with children, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 4.1% of households have no car here. Higher than in 83% of compared French towns: 20% of households are headed by a manual worker. Bray is home to 398 residents in 150 households, by the 2023 Census. For Bray, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 13%.
Throughout this page, the Eure 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 Bray
A town of families
42% of households are couples with children and 6.7% single parents with children; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A young town
Half of Bray’s residents are under 36.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 24% are under 15 and 12% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Growth of +8% since 2012 puts Bray ahead of 64% 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 median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Eure town −1%.
A median age of 36.7: Bray is younger than 92% 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
■ Bray 36.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Where 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Bray has 12%.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Eure 52.5%, France 51.8%.
In Bray, 24% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 96% 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 Eure median and the France median
Living alone · share
Set against 10% in the typical compared French town, 6.7% of households are single parents in Bray. As a yardstick, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Each household has 2.7 people on average.
A town of second homes: 4.8% of its homes
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for second homes is 2.1% in the typical compared French town. 17% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 8.7% moved in within the last two years. There is little gap on empty homes: 6%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
€26,100 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.
Half of Bray’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,100 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 51% of compared French towns.
Bray ranks below 70% of compared French towns on households headed by a manager or professional: 6.7%
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
Households headed by a retired person: 30%, below just over three fifths of compared French towns. Across the comparison, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.5% of residents are immigrants in Bray
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 2.2% in Bray and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 97% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Eure has 4.6%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Below 80% of compared French towns: 22% of residents 15 and over are single
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
Compared with 43% in the typical compared French town, 44% of residents 15 and over are married here. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Graduates of higher education: 27%, a lower share than 59% 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
Few places have so few adults with no qualification: 18% here, fewer than in 59% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%.
The youngest of 41 French towns of 398 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.
Bray is the youngest (36.7); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
No nearby town is as young as Bray
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bray | 36.7 | 12% | 4.8% | 1.5% |
| Beaumont-le-Roger 2,769 · 3.8 mi | 48 | 26% | 5% | 3.3% |
| Le Neubourg 4,199 · 4.1 mi | 52.3 | 33% | 1.8% | 1.7% |
| Brionne 4,185 · 8 mi | 45.9 | 27% | 3.9% | 3.1% |
| Conches-en-Ouche 4,838 · 11.1 mi | 44.7 | 25% | 2.9% | 3% |
| Bernay 9,765 · 11.3 mi | 49.2 | 29% | 4.3% | 4.5% |
| Mesnil-en-Ouche 4,414 · 11.3 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 19% | 2.3% |
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 Bray
What is the population of Bray?
398 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% more than in 2012 (368).
How old are Bray’s residents?
The median age is 36.7, younger than 92% of compared French towns. 29% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bray?
8, with occasional dwellings: 4.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bray?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (2.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bray?
€26,100 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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