Le Palais ranks below 97% of compared French towns on couples with children: 12%
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 29%, against 22% in the typical compared French town. Census day 2023: 2,599 residents and 1,320 households in Le Palais. Here, 17% of households have no car. The town has fewer empty homes than 88% of compared French towns, at 4%.
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 Palais
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 1,270 second homes and occasional dwellings in Le Palais, 47% of its 2,700 homes: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. 83% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Many people living alone
47% of Le Palais’ households are one person: higher than in 89% of compared French towns; 35% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes make up 47% in Le Palais, more than in 97% 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
In the last two years, 14% of households moved in; at the other end, 18% have stayed 30 years or more. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. At 7.8%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in 72% of compared French towns. Flats: 22%, below 63% of compared French towns.
Slower growth than 67% of compared French towns: Le Palais 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
In two steps, ±0% to 2017 and +1% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +7% in Morbihan.
Below 95% of compared French towns: 7.4% 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
■ Le Palais 50.5. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Le Palais is 50.5, higher than in 85% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
A higher share of one-person households than 89% of compared French towns, at 47%
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
A household here holds 1.9 people on average. On single-parent households, Le Palais sits higher than 90% of compared French towns: 14%. For comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
At the median, €26,410 a year to live on
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 Le Palais’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,410 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 55% of compared French towns. Under the poverty line sit 13.0% of residents.
A lower share of households headed by a manager or professional than 68% of compared French towns, at 7%
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
A third of households are headed by a retired person, or about one in three. Nothing unusual on households headed by a manual worker: 14%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 93% of compared French towns: 1.9% 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.
Foreign nationals: 1.5% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. On average, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Married residents make up 34% in Le Palais, less than in 92% 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
In the typical compared French town, 25% of residents 15 and over are single; in Le Palais, 30%. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
27% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 60% 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
The share of adults with no qualification trails 64% of compared French towns: 17%. In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification.
9th highest median age among 41 French towns of 2,578 to 2,625
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 Bourguébus (34.6), the youngest, and Bessèges (59.4), the oldest.
Every neighbor is older than Le Palais
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 Palais
What is the population of Le Palais?
2,599 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (2,578).
How old are Le Palais’ residents?
The median age is 50.5, older than 85% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Palais?
1,270, with occasional dwellings: 47% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Palais?
INSEE counts 48 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.9% of residents, and 40 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Palais?
€26,410 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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