Households without a car: 5%, a lower share than 88% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, 30% of homes are flats; in Pluguffan, 11%. The share of couples with children stands at 29%. Lower than in 83% of compared French towns: 8.9% of residents are 15 to 24. The town had 4,223 residents in 1,890 households at the 2023 Census.
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.
A +13% change since 2012: Pluguffan grew faster than 78% 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
Here the change came as +10% to 2017, then +3% to 2023. Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +4% in Finistère.
A median age of 44.6: Pluguffan is older than 54% 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
■ Pluguffan 44.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over come to 22% in Pluguffan, about two in ten.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
In Pluguffan, 8% of households are single parents, fewer than in 80% 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 Finistère median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 2.2 people share a household. The comparison figure for single-parent households is 10% in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few one-person households: 33% here, fewer than in just over three fifths of compared French towns.
In Pluguffan, 5.4% of homes stand empty, fewer than in 69% of compared French towns
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
The share of households in social housing tops 57% of compared French towns: 14%. By way of comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Second homes make up about one in 38 here (2.6%).
Median living standard: €26,570 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.
Half of Pluguffan’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,570 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 56% of compared French towns. Living below the poverty line: 8.0% of residents.
Above 71% of compared French towns: 17% of households are headed by a manual worker
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: nearly a third of the total. Few places have so few households headed by a manager or professional: 9% here, fewer than in 53% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manual worker come to 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 80% of compared French towns: 3.1% 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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 2.1% of residents are foreign nationals here. Against that, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Finistère has 2.4%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in four fifths of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
22% of residents 15 and over are single, below 80% 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
The share of married residents is 45%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
Below 86% of compared French towns: 12% 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
In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in Pluguffan, 33%. Measured more widely, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 20th youngest of 41 French towns of 4,189 to 4,258 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.
The youngest is Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (35.8), the oldest Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (65.8).
Pluguffan sits below 5 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Pluguffan
What is the population of Pluguffan?
4,223 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% more than in 2012 (3,735).
How old are Pluguffan’s residents?
The median age is 44.6, older than 54% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pluguffan?
53, with occasional dwellings: 2.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pluguffan?
INSEE counts 130 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.1% of residents, and 89 foreign nationals (2.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pluguffan?
€26,570 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 8.0% 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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