Plouray is older than 94% of compared French towns: a median age of 55.2
Here 16% of households are couples with children, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%. Few places have so few households in social housing: 4.1% here, fewer than in 90% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 1,060 residents and 520 households in Plouray. Locally, 6% of homes are flats.
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 Plouray
One home in seven is a second home
The census counted 96 second homes and occasional dwellings in Plouray, 13% of its 720 homes: higher than in 90% of compared French towns. 98% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Plouray’s residents are under 55.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 33% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 10% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
49% of Plouray’s households are one person: higher than in 93% of compared French towns; 36% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Plouray had 1,117 residents at the 2012 census and 1,060 in 2023, down 5%: slower growth than in 88% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 13%, a higher share than 90% 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 6.7% in the typical compared French town, 13% of homes stand empty here. Turnover: 9.2% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 21% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Higher than in 52% of compared French towns: 11% of households have no car. On average, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
Slower than most: −5% since 2012, behind 88% 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 −5% from 2017 to 2023.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 6.3% 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
■ Plouray 55.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 33% of residents are 65 or over in Plouray. Across the comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 49% in Plouray, more than in 93% 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
Single-parent households: 12%, above 72% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Each household has 1.8 people on average.
A median of €21,660 a year per consumption unit
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 €21,660 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 90% of compared French towns.
29% of households are headed by a manual worker, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
By its share of households headed by a manager or professional (5.1%), Plouray is below 84% of compared French towns. Typically, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in three: 33% of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 7.5% in Plouray, more than in 72% 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.
Immigrants make up a share higher than in 64% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Morbihan has 2.3%. Against that, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. For Plouray, the census puts immigrants at 8.7%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
36% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 88% 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
By its share of single residents (31%), Plouray is above 81% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 81% 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 tops 80% of compared French towns: 26%. Across the comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,060 to 2,582 people), the 6th oldest
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.
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Plouray
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 Plouray
What is the population of Plouray?
1,060 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% fewer than in 2012 (1,117).
How old are Plouray’s residents?
The median age is 55.2, older than 94% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 33% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Plouray?
96, with occasional dwellings: 13% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Plouray?
INSEE counts 92 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.7% of residents, and 79 foreign nationals (7.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Plouray?
€21,660 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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