Baden is older than 96% of compared French towns: a median age of 56.5
In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%; Baden has 4.1%. The census found that 13% of homes are flats locally. On households headed by a retired person, Baden sits higher than 93% of compared French towns: 45%. There were 2,460 households locally at the 2023 Census, home to 5,086 residents.
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 Baden
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 820 second homes and occasional dwellings in Baden, 24% of its 3,450 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 84% 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 Baden’s residents are under 56.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.8% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Growing fast
Baden had 4,260 residents at the 2012 census and 5,086 in 2023, up 19%: faster growth than in 89% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many graduates
48% 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.
A larger share of second homes than 94% of compared French towns: 24%
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
Against a figure of 6.7% in the typical compared French town, the share of empty homes in Baden comes in at 5.1%. Add to that, households in social housing are rarer here than in nearly two thirds of compared French towns. The benchmark for second homes in the typical compared French town: 2.1%. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 8.4% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 17%.
Baden grew +19% from 2012 to 2023, ahead of 89% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was +2%; from 2017 to 2023, +17%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Morbihan town +7%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of compared French towns: 6.8%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Baden 56.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, against 34% in Baden. To put it in context, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 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: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households: 6.7%, a lower share than 92% of compared French towns
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
20% of households are couples with children, against 25% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. One-person households: nearly a third of the total.
A median standard of living of €31,260 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 residents live in households above €31,260 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 89% of compared French towns. The share living below the poverty line is 7.0%.
A lower share of households headed by a manual worker than 94% of compared French towns, at 6.1%
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
16% of households are headed by a manager or professional (typical compared French town: 9.4%). In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Baden, 2.1% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 90% 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.
The share of foreign nationals trails 94% of compared French towns: 1%. Immigrants make up 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.
A larger share of married residents than 98% of compared French towns: 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 make up 18%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Baden sits below 96% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (9.9%)
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 figure for graduates of higher education is 48% in Baden and 30% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 5,039 to 5,133 people: this is the 2nd 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 Bezannes (31.7), the youngest, and Saint-Georges-de-Didonne (67.3), the oldest.
2 of 6 neighbors are older than Baden
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 Baden
What is the population of Baden?
5,086 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 19% more than in 2012 (4,260).
How old are Baden’s residents?
The median age is 56.5, older than 96% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Baden?
820, with occasional dwellings: 24% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Baden?
INSEE counts 110 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.1% of residents, and 51 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Baden?
€31,260 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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