Above 99% of compared French towns: 51% of households are couples with children
Where 11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town, Bellebrune has 1.1%. Lower than in 92% of compared French towns: 3.5% of homes stand empty. At the 2023 Census, 427 people lived locally, in 150 households. The share of flats stands at 2%.
Throughout this page, the Pas-de-Calais 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 Bellebrune
A town of families
51% of households are couples with children and 2.9% single parents with children; 23% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
Bellebrune had 353 residents at the 2012 census and 427 in 2023, up 21%: faster growth than in 91% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many graduates
50% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 15% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Bellebrune has grown +21%, faster than 91% 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 +13% from 2012 to 2017 and +7% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Pas-de-Calais town −1%.
15% of residents are 65 or over, below 91% 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
■ Bellebrune 39.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Bellebrune has 9.4%. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. With a median age of 39.7, Bellebrune is younger than 81% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Bellebrune ranks below 99% of compared French towns on one-person 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 Pas-de-Calais median and the France median
Living alone · share
By its share of single-parent households (2.9%), Bellebrune is below 99% of compared French towns. The benchmark for one-person households in the typical compared French town: 35%. On average, 2.8 people share a household.
A higher share of second homes than 77% of compared French towns, at 5.1%
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. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 3.6% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 16%. Second homes make up 2.1% in the typical compared French town.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €28,880 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.
The median standard of living in Bellebrune is €28,880 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 78% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a manual worker than 79% of compared French towns, at 19%
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: 29% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in seven: 15% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Elsewhere, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 0.2% of residents are immigrants in Bellebrune
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 lower than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Pas-de-Calais has 1.7%. As a yardstick, 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.
Bellebrune: 54% of residents 15 and over are married, above 98% 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
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, nearly a fifth of residents 15 and over are single here. In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%.
9.3% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 97% 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
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, half of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification here. As a yardstick, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
2nd lowest median age among 41 French towns of 427 to 2,582
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).
Nearby, 5 of 6 towns have older populations than Bellebrune
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 Bellebrune
What is the population of Bellebrune?
427 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 21% more than in 2012 (353).
How old are Bellebrune’s residents?
The median age is 39.7, younger than 81% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bellebrune?
8, with occasional dwellings: 5.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bellebrune?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.2% of residents, and 0 foreign nationals (0%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bellebrune?
€28,880 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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