Households without a car: 1.8%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%; Bray-lès-Mareuil has 20%. Households headed by a manager or professional make up about one in 23 here (4.4%). On empty homes, Bray-lès-Mareuil sits higher than 85% of compared French towns: 11%. There were 100 households in the town at the 2023 Census, home to 249 residents.
Throughout this page, the Somme 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 Bray-lès-Mareuil
One home in seven is a second home
The census counted 20 second homes and occasional dwellings in Bray-lès-Mareuil, 15% of its 140 homes: higher than in 91% of compared French towns. 82% 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.
Bray-lès-Mareuil ranks above 91% of compared French towns on second homes: 15%
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
5.4% of households moved in less than two years ago; 26% have been in their home 30 years or more. For comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Since 2012, Bray-lès-Mareuil has changed by −1%, slower than 73% 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
In two steps, −4% to 2017 and +4% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −3% in Somme.
A median age of 46.6: Bray-lès-Mareuil is older than 67% 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
■ Bray-lès-Mareuil 46.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Here one in ten residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. For Bray-lès-Mareuil, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 22%.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Bray-lès-Mareuil ranks above 91% of compared French towns on 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 Somme median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.5 people. More couples with children than in four fifths of compared French towns: 31%. Single-parent households make up 10% in the typical compared French town.
A typical living standard of €23,120 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €23,120 a year: lower than in 81% of compared French towns.
Bray-lès-Mareuil ranks below 82% of compared French towns on households headed by a manual worker: 9.2%
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: 35%, above 62% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 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).
Immigrants make up 1.3% in Bray-lès-Mareuil, less than in 98% 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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Bray-lès-Mareuil has 1%. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
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 single residents than 86% of compared French towns, at 21%
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
Here 45% of residents 15 and over are married, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 43%. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 96% of compared French towns, at 16%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%; Bray-lès-Mareuil has 27%. On average, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 18th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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.
Nearby, 5 of 6 towns have older populations than Bray-lès-Mareuil
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bray-lès-Mareuil | 46.6 | 22% | 15% | 1.3% |
| Abbeville 22,395 · 3.6 mi | 47.1 | 25% | 1.5% | 2.7% |
| Flixecourt 3,221 · 10.4 mi | 43.5 | 22% | 1.7% | 1.7% |
| Blangy-sur-Bresle 2,819 · 13.4 mi | 51.1 | 30% | 1.8% | 2% |
| Friville-Escarbotin 4,306 · 13.9 mi | 47.5 | 26% | 2.8% | 1.7% |
| Auxi-le-Château 2,547 · 16.7 mi | 50.3 | 31% | 3.5% | 1.4% |
| Rue 2,987 · 17.1 mi | 53.8 | 35% | 11% | 1.3% |
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 Bray-lès-Mareuil
What is the population of Bray-lès-Mareuil?
249 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (251).
How old are Bray-lès-Mareuil’s residents?
The median age is 46.6, older than 67% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bray-lès-Mareuil?
20, with occasional dwellings: 15% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bray-lès-Mareuil?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.3% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bray-lès-Mareuil?
€23,120 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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