Couples with children make up 48% in Bretx, more than in 99% of compared French towns
11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town, against 1.7% in Bretx. Census figures put flats at 0.4% here. Few places have as many households headed by a manager or professional: 22% here, more than in 91% of compared French towns. The town’s 250 households held 673 residents at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Garonne 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 Bretx
A town of families
48% of households are couples with children and 8.3% single parents with children; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Many graduates
52% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 18% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Bretx grew +13% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 76% 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
In two steps, +11% to 2017 and +2% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +15% in Haute-Garonne.
15% of residents are 65 or over, below 91% 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
■ Bretx 42.4. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Bretx is 42.4, lower than in 63% of compared French towns. For comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. Across Bretx, nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Garonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
Bretx sits below 99% of compared French towns for one-person households (17%)
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 Haute-Garonne median and the France median
Living alone · share
With single-parent households at 8.3%, Bretx is behind 77% of compared French towns on that count. The usual figure: just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 2.7 people on average.
Empty homes make up 4.9% in Bretx, less than in 76% 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
Recent arrivals (under two years) make up nearly one in ten households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 16%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. On second homes, 2.3% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
€32,720 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €32,720 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 93% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 23%, a lower share than 90% 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
Set against 14% in the typical compared French town, just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker in Bretx. For comparison, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of foreign nationals than 60% of compared French towns, at 3.3%
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 52% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Haute-Garonne has 7.5%. The usual figure: 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. 6.3% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
17% of residents 15 and over are single, below 99% 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
Married residents: 53% here and 43% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification make up 7.8% in Bretx, less than in 99% 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
Here 52% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. For comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
10th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 673 to 2,582
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 Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
A younger town than 1 of the 6 around it: Bretx
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 Bretx
What is the population of Bretx?
673 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% more than in 2012 (597).
How old are Bretx’s residents?
The median age is 42.4, younger than 63% of compared French towns. 29% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bretx?
6, with occasional dwellings: 2.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bretx?
INSEE counts 42 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.3% of residents, and 22 foreign nationals (3.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bretx?
€32,720 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 November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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