A smaller share of flats than 99% of compared French towns: 1.4%
Set against 14% in the typical compared French town, nearly a third of households are headed by a manual worker in Gueltas. Lower than in 95% of compared French towns: 3.9% of households have no car. The town is home to 551 residents in 230 households, by the 2023 Census. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 7.7%.
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 Gueltas
Empty homes
The census found 41 homes empty (14%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Gueltas’s population changed by +7% since 2012, more than in 60% 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
The change was ±0% from 2012 to 2017 and +8% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Morbihan town +7%.
A median age of 42.3: Gueltas is younger than 63% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Gueltas 42.3. The median compared French town: 44.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (23%), Gueltas is above 58% of compared French towns.
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%.
Gueltas ranks below 99% of compared French towns on single-parent households: 4.2%
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
On average, 2.3 people share a household. In the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households is 10%. More couples with children than in just over four fifths of compared French towns: 31%. Just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, against 28% in Gueltas.
Empty homes make up 14% in Gueltas, more than in 94% 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
Compared with 12% in the typical compared French town, 6.8% of households rent social housing (HLM) here. In the typical compared French town, empty homes come to 6.7%. Second homes: 7% of the total.
€24,470 a year is the median standard of living here
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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,470 a year: lower than in 66% of compared French towns.
Gueltas ranks below 99% of compared French towns on households headed by a manager or professional: 2.1%
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
Nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 28% in Gueltas. Measured more widely, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Gueltas: 5.5% of residents are foreign nationals, above 60% 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.
Across Gueltas, 6.9% of residents are immigrants. That is higher than in 53% 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.
In Gueltas, 45% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 64% of compared French towns
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
Locally, 25% of residents 15 and over are single. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Graduates of higher education make up 19% in Gueltas, less than in 90% 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
Fewer adults with no qualification than in 54% of compared French towns: 18%. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 551 to 2,582 people, the 10th 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.
Gueltas is younger than every town around it
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 Gueltas
What is the population of Gueltas?
551 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (514).
How old are Gueltas’ residents?
The median age is 42.3, younger than 63% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Gueltas?
20, with occasional dwellings: 7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Gueltas?
INSEE counts 38 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.9% of residents, and 30 foreign nationals (5.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Gueltas?
€24,470 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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