3.5% of households have no car, fewer than in 97% of compared French towns
Households headed by a retired person: 45% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. Across Briennon, 2% of households rent social housing (HLM). With a median age of 49.6, Briennon is older than 82% of compared French towns. Its 730 households held 1,710 residents at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Loire 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.
From 2012 to 2023, 75% of compared French towns grew faster than Briennon: −1%
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 −2%, then +1% to 2023. Over those years, the median Loire town changed +3% and the median compared French town +5%.
Above 85% of compared French towns: 30% of residents are 65 or over
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Briennon 49.6. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Briennon has 8.9%. For comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Fewer single-parent households than 91% of compared French towns: 6.8%
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 Loire median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children is 25%; Briennon has 31%. As a yardstick, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. 28% of households are one person living alone, or about one in four.
Flats make up 11% in Briennon, less than in 85% 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
Of all households, 4.1% moved in during the last two years and 31% have stayed three decades or more. Set beside that, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few second homes: 1.8% here, fewer than in 56% of compared French towns. Empty homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 6.8%.
A median of €25,990 a year per consumption unit
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 Briennon is €25,990 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 50% of compared French towns.
Above 58% of compared French towns: 15% 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 manager or professional make up about one in 11 here (8.9%). The wider picture: 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 85% of compared French towns: 2.6% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Briennon comes in at 1.4%. Set beside that, 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.
20% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 92% 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
48% of residents 15 and over are married; in the typical compared French town the figure is 43%. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
23% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 74% 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
More adults with no qualification than in 51% of compared French towns: 19%. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 1,710 to 2,582 people, the 14th 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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 3 are older than Briennon
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 Briennon
What is the population of Briennon?
1,710 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (1,733).
How old are Briennon’s residents?
The median age is 49.6, older than 82% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Briennon?
14, with occasional dwellings: 1.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Briennon?
INSEE counts 45 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 24 foreign nationals (1.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Briennon?
€25,990 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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