A higher share of couples with children than 98% of compared French towns, at 39%
1% of households have no car; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. There were 210 households in Beillé at the 2023 Census, home to 542 residents. Locally, 4.4% of homes are flats. Higher than in 99% of compared French towns: 32% of households are headed by a manual worker.
Throughout this page, the Sarthe 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 Beillé
A town of families
39% of households are couples with children and 4.9% single parents with children; 23% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A young town
Half of Beillé’s residents are under 37.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 23% are under 15 and 12% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 29 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower than most: +3% since 2012, behind 56% 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 +1%; from 2017 to 2023, +3%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Sarthe town ±0%.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 97% of compared French towns: 12%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Beillé 37.5. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Beillé is 37.5, lower than in 90% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. Residents aged 15 to 24: 10% of the total.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Sarthe 51.6%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 4.9% in Beillé, less than in 99% 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 Sarthe median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.5 people. In the typical compared French town, single-parent households come to 10%. Few places have so few one-person households: 29% here, fewer than in nearly four fifths of compared French towns.
12% of homes stand empty, more than in 89% 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. For empty homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.7%. Long tenure is the mark of 14% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 7.8% (under two years). Second homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 2.6%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €24,620 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.
Half of residents live in households above €24,620 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 65% of compared French towns.
The largest group of households: retired (32%)
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 manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Beillé has fewer households headed by a retired person than 54% of compared French towns, at 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 81% of compared French towns: 3.1%
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 median compared commune in Sarthe has 2.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Foreign nationals make up about one in 29 here (3.4%).
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Fewer single residents than 78% of compared French towns: 22%
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
Married residents account for 43%. As a reference point, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Beillé sits below 79% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (22%)
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
23% of adults out of school have no qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 19%. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 2nd youngest of 41 French towns of 542 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.
Every neighbor is older than Beillé
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beillé | 37.5 | 12% | 2.6% | 3.1% |
| Connerré 2,780 · 2 mi | 45.2 | 26% | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| Montfort-le-Gesnois 2,939 · 5.1 mi | 46.2 | 26% | 2.2% | 1.1% |
| Saint-Mars-la-Brière 2,681 · 7.1 mi | 42 | 20% | 2.3% | 2.6% |
| Bonnétable 3,703 · 7.6 mi | 53.5 | 34% | 4.5% | 1.7% |
| Champagné 3,666 · 9.4 mi | 39.1 | 16% | 1.8% | 2.8% |
| La Ferté-Bernard 8,740 · 9.7 mi | 50.4 | 31% | 3% | 6.8% |
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 Beillé
What is the population of Beillé?
542 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (524).
How old are Beillé’s residents?
The median age is 37.5, younger than 90% of compared French towns. 27% are under 18 and 12% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Beillé?
6, with occasional dwellings: 2.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Beillé?
INSEE counts 17 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.1% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (3.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Beillé?
€24,620 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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