Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 99% of compared French towns: 2.2%
Where 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, Bréhan has 8.1%. At the 2023 Census, 2,306 people lived in the town, in 940 households. Single-parent households account for 3.1%. Second homes are more common here than in just over four fifths of compared French towns.
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 Bréhan
An older town
Half of Bréhan’s residents are under 51.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 74% of compared French towns: Bréhan changed by −1% since 2012
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
Bréhan is older than 88% of compared French towns: a median age of 51.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bréhan 51.8. The median compared French town: 44.
30% of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in ten: one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
In Bréhan, 24% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 58% 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
Each household has 2.2 people on average. On average, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 57% of compared French towns: 34% of households are one person living alone.
5.7% of households have no car, fewer than in 82% 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
The share of empty homes is 8.2%, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing account for 6.2%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €25,580 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 €25,580 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 54% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 45% in Bréhan, more than in 93% 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
The share of households headed by a manual worker is 16%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. On average, 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).
5.7% of Bréhan’s 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.
Here, 5.1% of residents are foreign nationals. That is lower than in 57% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Morbihan has 2.3%.
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 76% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Bréhan has 45%. Elsewhere, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Only 18% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Bréhan
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
By its share of adults with no qualification (22%), Bréhan is above nearly two thirds of compared French towns. For comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
9th highest median age among 41 French towns of 2,306 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Older than Bréhan: 1 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Bréhan
What is the population of Bréhan?
2,306 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (2,332).
How old are Bréhan’s residents?
The median age is 51.8, older than 88% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bréhan?
75, with occasional dwellings: 6.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bréhan?
INSEE counts 130 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.7% of residents, and 120 foreign nationals (5.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bréhan?
€25,580 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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