Photo: Moreau.henri · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 96% of compared French towns: half of Arradon is over 56.9
In the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households is 10%; Arradon has 5.8%. By contrast, more households headed by a retired person than in 94% of compared French towns: 46%. The town had 5,835 residents in 2,870 households at the 2023 Census. Empty homes account for 3.8%.
Throughout this page, the Morbihan 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 Arradon
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 600 second homes and occasional dwellings in Arradon, 17% of its 3,610 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 72% 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 Arradon’s residents are under 56.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 37% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 12% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many graduates
53% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 23% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More second homes than 92% of compared French towns: 17%
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
Newcomers of less than two years account for just over one in ten households, residents of 30 years or more for 21%. Fewer households without a car than in nearly four fifths of compared French towns: 6.1%. Across the comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. The share of households in social housing trails 74% of compared French towns: 7.4%.
Growth of +7% since 2012 puts Arradon ahead of 58% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −2%, then +9% to 2023.
Arradon sits above 96% of compared French towns for residents aged 65 and over (37%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Arradon 56.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, against 9.7% in Arradon. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Arradon ranks below 83% of compared French towns on couples with children: 18%
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 Morbihan median and the France median
Living alone · share
38% of households are one person living alone; in the typical compared French town the figure is 35%. As a reference point, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Households average 2 people.
A typical living standard of €34,010 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 Arradon’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €34,010 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. Residents below the poverty line make up 5.0%.
A lower share of households headed by a manual worker than 99% of compared French towns, at 3%
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
Compared with 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 17% of households are headed by a manager or professional here. Households headed by a manual worker make up 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 87% of compared French towns: 2.4% 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.
The figure for foreign nationals is 1.2% in Arradon and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A higher share of married residents than 98% of compared French towns, at 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
Single residents: 20%, below 91% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification: 8.8%, a lower share than 98% 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
Graduates of higher education: 53%, above 95% of compared French towns. The wider picture: nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
2nd highest median age among 41 French towns of 5,798 to 5,873
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Viry is the youngest (35.9); Montmorillon the oldest (57.4).
Every neighbor is younger than Arradon
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 Arradon
What is the population of Arradon?
5,835 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (5,463).
How old are Arradon’s residents?
The median age is 56.9, older than 96% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 37% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Arradon?
600, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Arradon?
INSEE counts 140 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 70 foreign nationals (1.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Arradon?
€34,010 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 5.0% 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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