Households without a car: 3.1%, a lower share than 98% of compared French towns
7.8% of homes are flats, against 30% in the typical compared French town. More second homes than in just over four fifths of compared French towns: 6.1%. Pleuven had 3,311 residents in 1,480 households at the 2023 census. The share of single-parent households stands at 6.5%.
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 Pleuven
Growing fast
Pleuven had 2,679 residents at the 2012 census and 3,311 in 2023, up 24%: faster growth than in 93% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +24% change since 2012: Pleuven grew faster than 93% 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 Finistère town changed +4% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +11% and the next six +11%.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 92% of compared French towns, at 8.1%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Pleuven 48.4. The median compared French town: 44.
22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, against 27% in Pleuven. The wider picture: 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. The median age in the town is 48.4, higher than in just over three quarters of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
Above 70% of compared French towns: 29% of households are couples with children
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
Compared with 35% in the typical compared French town, a third of households are one person living alone here. Across the comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of households in social housing than 83% of compared French towns: 5.6%
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
Long tenure is the mark of 21% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 7.3% (under two years). 5.7% of homes stand empty, fewer than in 64% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €27,780 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.
Living standards centre on €27,780 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 69% of compared French towns. Some 6.0% of residents fall below the poverty line.
Pleuven sits below 74% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (10%)
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 manager or professional make up 13%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. About one in three: that is how common households headed by a retired person are in Pleuven (36%). Measured more widely, 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).
In Pleuven, 2.2% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 89% of compared French towns
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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 1.1% of residents are foreign nationals in Pleuven. Elsewhere, 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.
Single residents: 22%, a lower share than 79% 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
Census figures put married residents at 43% in Pleuven. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Below 95% of compared French towns: 10% of adults out of school have no qualification
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
38% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification (typical compared French town: 30%). Typically, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 3,282 to 3,342 people: this is the 9th 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 Saint-Maximin (36.4), the youngest, and Roscoff (61.5), the oldest.
No nearby town is as young as Pleuven
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleuven | 48.4 | 27% | 6.1% | 2.2% |
| Fouesnant 10,436 · 2.6 mi | 57 | 36% | 32% | 2% |
| Saint-Évarzec 3,574 · 2.8 mi | 49.1 | 25% | 2.4% | 2.3% |
| Gouesnach 2,836 · 3 mi | 51.4 | 30% | 9.4% | 1.6% |
| Bénodet 3,849 · 3.1 mi | 62.4 | 45% | 48% | 1.9% |
| La Forêt-Fouesnant 3,508 · 3.4 mi | 56.3 | 35% | 28% | 2% |
| Plomelin 4,239 · 5.2 mi | 50.6 | 26% | 4.1% | 1.5% |
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 Pleuven
What is the population of Pleuven?
3,311 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 24% more than in 2012 (2,679).
How old are Pleuven’s residents?
The median age is 48.4, older than 76% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pleuven?
100, with occasional dwellings: 6.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pleuven?
INSEE counts 73 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.2% of residents, and 38 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pleuven?
€27,780 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 6.0% 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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