In Santec, 27% of homes are second homes, more than in 94% of compared French towns
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 7%, Santec is behind 97% of compared French towns on that count. Flats: 3.7% of the total. Few places have so few households in social housing: 3.3% here, fewer than in 93% of compared French towns. Its 1,160 households held 2,454 residents 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.
What stands out about the people of Santec
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 470 second homes and occasional dwellings in Santec, 27% of its 1,760 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 98% 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 Santec’s residents are under 51.6 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 27% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.9% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
6% of households have no car, fewer than in 80% 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
Long tenure is the mark of 28% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 8.5% (under two years). The wider picture: just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Nothing unusual on empty homes: 6.8%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
+5% since 2012, a pace 52% of compared French towns didn’t match
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
A median age of 51.6: Santec is older than 88% 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
■ Santec 51.6. The median compared French town: 44.
27% of residents are 65 or over (typical compared French town: 22%).
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%.
A lower share of single-parent households than 84% of compared French towns, at 7.6%
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
23% of households are couples with children; in the typical compared French town the figure is 25%. One-person households are rarer here than in 61% of compared French towns. For comparison, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.1 people.
A median standard of living of €28,210 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.
At €28,210 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 73% of compared French towns. As for poverty, 7.0% of residents are below the line.
Above 87% of compared French towns: 41% of households are headed by a retired person
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
In Santec, 12% of households are headed by a manual worker, beside 14% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Across Santec, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Santec sits below 95% of compared French towns for immigrants (1.7%)
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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Santec has 0.9%. The comparison figure for immigrants is 6.5% 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.
Santec ranks above 98% of compared French towns on married residents: 54%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%; Santec has 19%. Set beside that, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 68% of compared French towns, at 16%
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 graduates of higher education is 32%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 2,454 to 2,582 people: this is the 10th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
5 of 6 neighbors are older than Santec
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 Santec
What is the population of Santec?
2,454 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (2,328).
How old are Santec’s residents?
The median age is 51.6, older than 88% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Santec?
470, with occasional dwellings: 27% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Santec?
INSEE counts 41 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 23 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Santec?
€28,210 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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