More second homes than 98% of compared French towns: 59%
Empty homes: 1.3%, below 99% of compared French towns. 7.9% of residents are 15 to 24, a lower share than in 93% of compared French towns. Sauzon had 1,036 residents in 530 households at the 2023 census. Households headed by a retired person come to 38% here, about four in ten.
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 Sauzon
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 800 second homes and occasional dwellings in Sauzon, 59% of its 1,350 homes: higher than in 98% of compared French towns. 91% 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 Sauzon’s residents are under 51.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.9% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
9.3% of homes are flats, below 88% 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 that moved in under two years ago: 10%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 24%. Compared with other places, households in social housing are scarce here: 5.4%, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns. What’s more, 6.4% of households have no car, against 11% in the typical compared French town.
Sauzon’s population changed by +14% since 2012, more than in 80% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was +9%; from 2017 to 2023, +5%.
A median age of 51.5: Sauzon is older than 88% 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
■ Sauzon 51.5. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over tops 87% of compared French towns: 31%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Morbihan 51.6%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of single-parent households than 86% of compared French towns, at 7.4%
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. Single-parent households make up 10% in the typical compared French town. Higher than in three quarters of compared French towns: 42% of households are one person living alone. In the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children is 25%; Sauzon has 21%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €25,200 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.
Living standards centre on €25,200 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 58% of compared French towns.
7.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 64% of compared French towns
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
Few places have as many households headed by a manual worker: 14% here, more than in just over half of compared French towns. Typically, 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).
2.1% of residents are immigrants, below 90% 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.
The share of foreign nationals is 0.9%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for immigrants is 6.5% 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: 39%, a lower share than 74% 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, 24% of residents 15 and over are single. For married residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Sauzon ranks below 88% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 12%
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 in the typical compared French town, against 34% in Sauzon. The wider picture: 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 10th oldest of 41 French towns of 1,036 to 2,582 people
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.
Sauzon and its 3 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
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 Sauzon
What is the population of Sauzon?
1,036 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 14% more than in 2012 (909).
How old are Sauzon’s residents?
The median age is 51.5, older than 88% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Sauzon?
800, with occasional dwellings: 59% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Sauzon?
INSEE counts 22 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.1% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Sauzon?
€25,200 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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