1.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns
With households in social housing at 1.3%, Forges de Lanouée is behind 98% of compared French towns on that count. In 2023, the Census found 2,253 residents in the town, living in 1,040 households. 2.3% of homes are flats. The median age locally is 49.3, higher 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 Forges de Lanouée
One home in 10 is a second home
The census counted 130 second homes and occasional dwellings in Forges de Lanouée, 10% of its 1,270 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes make up 10% in Forges de Lanouée, more than in 88% 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
Set against 6.7% in the typical compared French town, 8.4% of homes stand empty in Forges de Lanouée. For Forges de Lanouée, the census puts households without a car at 6.1%. The share of second homes in the typical compared French town is 2.1%.
A +5% change since 2012: faster than 52% 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
Below 91% of compared French towns: 8.2% of residents are 15 to 24
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Forges de Lanouée 49.3. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over; in Forges de Lanouée, 25%. As a reference point, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
Forges de Lanouée sits below 98% of compared French towns for single-parent households (5.2%)
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
One-person households: 33% here and 35% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. There are 2.2 people in the average household.
Standard of living at the median: €24,580 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.
At €24,580 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 65% of compared French towns. The share living below the poverty line is 13.0%.
A higher share of households headed by a manual worker than 91% of compared French towns, at 23%
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
Set against 32% in the typical compared French town, 35% of households are headed by a retired person in Forges de Lanouée. Across the comparison, 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).
Above 59% of compared French towns: 5.3% of residents are foreign nationals
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 median compared commune in Morbihan has 2.3%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 53% of compared French towns. On the census count, 6.2% of residents are immigrants. As a reference point, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
48% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 82% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
The figure for single residents is 22% in Forges de Lanouée and 25% in the typical compared French town. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Graduates of higher education make up 19% in Forges de Lanouée, less than in 88% 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
Adults with no qualification make up about one in five here (20%). On average, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 2,253 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).
1 of 6 neighbors are older than Forges de Lanouée
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 Forges de Lanouée
What is the population of Forges de Lanouée?
2,253 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (2,141).
How old are Forges de Lanouée’s residents?
The median age is 49.3, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Forges de Lanouée?
130, with occasional dwellings: 10% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Forges de Lanouée?
INSEE counts 140 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 120 foreign nationals (5.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Forges de Lanouée?
€24,580 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 13.0% 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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