Photo: Citizen lambda · CC BY-SA 3.0Bénodet is older than 99% of compared French towns: a median age of 62.4
The share of households headed by a retired person is 56%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. There were 2,120 households in Bénodet at the 2023 Census, home to 3,849 residents. In Bénodet, 13% of households are couples with children. At 3.5%, the share of empty homes is lower than in 92% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Finistère 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 Bénodet
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 2,070 second homes and occasional dwellings in Bénodet, 48% of its 4,350 homes: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. 39% 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 Bénodet’s residents are under 62.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 45% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 15% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
48% of Bénodet’s households are one person: higher than in 91% of compared French towns; 34% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 97% of compared French towns: 48% of homes are second 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
In the typical compared French town, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM); in Bénodet, 3.2%. Here, 43% of homes are flats. The usual figure: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
From 2012 to 2023, Bénodet outgrew 74% of compared French towns: +11%
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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +3%, then +8% to 2023. Over those years, the median Finistère town changed +4% and the median compared French town +5%.
Bénodet sits above 99% of compared French towns for residents aged 65 and over (45%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bénodet 62.4. The median compared French town: 44.
5% of residents are 15 to 24; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Fewer single-parent households than 99% of compared French towns: 3.5%
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 Finistère median and the France median
Living alone · share
One-person households: 48% here and 35% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 1.8 people.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €30,730 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 Bénodet is €30,730 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 87% of compared French towns. One measure of hardship: 7.0% of residents are below the poverty line.
In Bénodet, 5.9% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 94% 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
Put another way, about one in ten: 9.7% of households are headed by a manager or professional. 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 93% of compared French towns: 1.9% 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 figure for foreign nationals is 1.1% in Bénodet and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Finistère has 2.4%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 93% of compared French towns. Typically, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 19% of residents 15 and over are single in Bénodet
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
The share of married residents tops just over four fifths of compared French towns: 47%. As a reference point, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification: 12%, a lower share than 87% 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
In Bénodet, just over two in five adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, beside 30% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
2nd highest median age among 41 French towns of 3,825 to 3,872
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 Pringy (36.3), the youngest, and Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (68.1), the oldest.
1 of 6 neighbors are older than Bénodet
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 Bénodet
What is the population of Bénodet?
3,849 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% more than in 2012 (3,453).
How old are Bénodet’s residents?
The median age is 62.4, older than 99% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 45% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bénodet?
2,070, with occasional dwellings: 48% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bénodet?
INSEE counts 73 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.9% of residents, and 41 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bénodet?
€30,730 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 7.0% 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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