Photo: LPLT · CC BY-SA 3.0Le Faouët is older than 95% of compared French towns: a median age of 56.1
In Le Faouët, 14% of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. Its 1,440 households held 2,814 residents at the 2023 Census. Locally, 48% of households are headed by a retired person. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 8.2%, more than in 86% 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 Le Faouët
An older town
Half of Le Faouët’s residents are under 56.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 37% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 15% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 210 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of ±0% since 2012 leaves Le Faouët behind 71% 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
Over those years, the median Morbihan town changed +7% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −1%, then ±0% to 2023.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 96% of compared French towns: 37%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Le Faouët 56.1. The median compared French town: 44.
7.5% of residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 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.
One-person households make up 45% in Le Faouët, more than in 85% 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
Households average 1.9 people. On average, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. 8% of households are single parents, fewer than in 80% of compared French towns.
Le Faouët ranks above 87% of compared French towns on empty homes: 12%
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
Households in social housing: 7.2%, below 76% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. 15% of households have no car, or about one in seven. Lower than in 84% of compared French towns: 12% of homes are flats.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €23,460 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €23,460 a year: lower than in 77% of compared French towns. As for poverty, 16.0% of residents are below the line.
Le Faouët sits below 84% of compared French towns for households headed by a manager or professional (5.2%)
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 14% in the typical compared French town, 12% of households are headed by a manual worker here. Typically, 9.4% of 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).
Below 75% of compared French towns: 3.8% 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 median compared commune in Morbihan has 2.3%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in three quarters of compared French towns. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Census figures put foreign nationals at 2.8% in Le Faouët.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 23% of residents 15 and over are single in Le Faouët
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
Just over two in five residents 15 and over are married, against 43% in the typical compared French town. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 88% of compared French towns, at 19%
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 26%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 4th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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 37.7 in Miremont to 59 in Vendays-Montalivet.
Le Faouët is older 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 Le Faouët
What is the population of Le Faouët?
2,814 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (2,821).
How old are Le Faouët’s residents?
The median age is 56.1, older than 95% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 37% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Faouët?
150, with occasional dwellings: 8.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Faouët?
INSEE counts 110 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.8% of residents, and 78 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Faouët?
€23,460 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 16.0% 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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