Saint-Aignan: 24% of homes are second homes, above 94% of compared French towns
2.6% of homes are flats; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. Households without a car make up about one in 16 here (6.4%). The median age in Saint-Aignan is 49.3, higher than in 80% of compared French towns. Its 300 households held 637 residents at the 2023 Census.
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 Saint-Aignan
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 110 second homes and occasional dwellings in Saint-Aignan, 24% of its 450 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 97% 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.
9.1% of homes stand empty, more than in 74% 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Of all households, 7.9% moved in during the last two years and 23% have stayed three decades or more. Elsewhere, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Car-free households: one in 16, where the median compared French town has 11%.
Since 2012, Saint-Aignan has changed by ±0%, slower than 70% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +7% in Morbihan.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 90% of compared French towns, at 8.3%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Saint-Aignan 49.3. The median compared French town: 44.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (29%), Saint-Aignan is above 84% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 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%.
Saint-Aignan sits above 93% of compared French towns for single-parent households (14%)
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
In the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are one person living alone; in Saint-Aignan, 37%. Meanwhile, just over a fifth of households are couples with children, a lower share than in 72% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Households here average 2.1 people each.
A median of €23,390 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.
The median standard of living in Saint-Aignan is €23,390 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 78% of compared French towns.
Below 74% of compared French towns: 6.3% of households are headed by a manager or professional
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
Households headed by a retired person: 37% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. What’s more, more households headed by a manual worker than in 72% of compared French towns: 17%. The benchmark for households headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town: 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Saint-Aignan ranks above 71% of compared French towns on foreign nationals: 7.3%
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.
In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%; Saint-Aignan has 8.2%. The usual figure: 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. That is higher than in just over three fifths 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.
A lower share of married residents than 82% of compared French towns, at 37%
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 share of single residents stands at 26%. In the median compared French town 43% are married and 6.1% in a PACS; here it is 37% and 13%, and 8.2% are widowed.
In Saint-Aignan, 16% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 67% 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
30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. Typically, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 637 to 2,582 people, the 14th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Saint-Aignan sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Saint-Aignan
What is the population of Saint-Aignan?
637 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (637).
How old are Saint-Aignan’s residents?
The median age is 49.3, older than 80% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Aignan?
110, with occasional dwellings: 24% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Aignan?
INSEE counts 52 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.2% of residents, and 46 foreign nationals (7.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Aignan?
€23,390 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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