3.5% of homes are flats, below 98% of compared French towns
Set against 14% in the typical compared French town, 27% of households are headed by a manual worker in Breux. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Its 110 households held 258 residents at the 2023 Census. The census found that nearly one in ten homes are second homes here.
Throughout this page, the Meuse 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 Breux
Immigrants
INSEE counts 100 immigrants in Breux (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 41% of residents, against 7.3% for the median compared commune in Meuse. 38% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Empty homes
The census found 22 homes empty (15%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of ±0% since 2012 leaves Breux behind 70% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, −8% in Meuse.
Breux is younger than 55% of compared French towns: a median age of 43.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Breux 43.4. The median compared French town: 44.
There is little gap on residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, about the same as in the typical compared French town. The census found that just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in Breux.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Meuse 52.5%, France 51.8%.
31% of households are couples with children, a share 81% of compared French towns don’t reach
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 Meuse median and the France median
Living alone · share
Breux sits close to the norm on single-parent households: 9.1%, about the same as in the typical compared French town. Typically, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. For Breux, the census puts one-person households at 32%.
A higher share of empty homes than 95% of compared French towns, at 15%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%; Breux has 6.4%. As a yardstick, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Of all households, 7.3% moved in during the last two years and 20% have stayed three decades or more.
Standard of living at the median: €26,530 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €26,530 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 56% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 87% of compared French towns, at 41%
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 32% 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).
Breux: 41% of residents are immigrants, above 99% 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.
With foreign nationals at 38%, Breux is ahead of 99% of compared French towns on that count. 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.
More single residents than 75% of compared French towns: 29%
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 make up 41%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 83% of compared French towns: 13%
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
23% of Breux’s residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 13% have no diploma (19%).
Of 41 French towns its size (258 to 2,582 people), the 12th youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Breux and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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 Breux
What is the population of Breux?
258 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (258).
How old are Breux’s residents?
The median age is 43.4, younger than 55% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Breux?
14, with occasional dwellings: 9.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Breux?
INSEE counts 110 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 41% of residents, and 98 foreign nationals (38%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Breux?
€26,530 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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