What are the “profound demographic and social changes” in the Rennes neighborhoods? A study by INSEE Bretagne looked into the question by using data from population censuses. In 30 years, the city’s population has increased by 10% (20,000 inhabitants), from 197,494 inhabitants in 1990 to 216,815 in 2017. A demographic growth which is progressing less quickly than the number of main residences. A boom that can be explained by the realization of urban projects such as Courrouze or Beauregard.
Strong disparities between neighborhoods
All neighborhoods are not equal in welcoming newcomers. Each year, the population increase is particularly strong in the Cleunay Arsenal Redon (+ 3.7%) and Thabor Saint-Hélier Alphonse Guérin (+ 1.7%) districts. On the other hand, five neighborhoods are losing local residents: first of all the Le Blosne neighborhood (-1.5%), then Bréquigny (-1%), but also, to a lesser extent, the districts of the Center, Maurepas Bellangerais and Sud Gare. As everywhere in France, the size of households is decreasing. Households in Rennes now consist of 1.7 individuals, against 2.3 in 1990. According to INSEE, the population increase is even greater outside Rennes, on the territory of the Metropolis, with more than 90,000 additional inhabitants. Residents who also settle in main residence: their number has doubled in thirty years.
Popular south, easy city center … And more and more executives
In the city, low and high incomes are strongly represented. The social composition of certain neighborhoods has changed little: historically affluent neighborhoods close to the center have remained so, like the less favored populations south of the city. On the other hand, INSEE underlines a strong increase in the proportion of executives and higher socio-professional categories, which rose from 9% to 15%.
An increase greater than that of the department (10.1%), the region (7.4%) but also the country (9.4%). Executives live mainly in the city center (18.7%) and the Thabor district (2.9%), but were also attracted by the Sud Gare and Cleunay Arsenal Redon districts, which are now very close to the composition. social center. In Rennes, the median annual standard of living in 2018 is 21,410 euros: it is lower than in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany and France.
Fewer workers and a high poverty rate
The share of workers and employees has fallen sharply. While they represented more than 30% of Rennes’ population in the 1990s, they now represent 22.5%. Socio-professional categories who live mainly outside the city or in the Blosne and Bréquigny districts, where they are more represented than in the other districts in 2017. In Rennes, the poverty rate, with a lower standard of living at 13,038 euros annually, is twice as high as in the rest of Ille-et-Vilaine. The districts where the rate is the highest are the priority districts of the city: Bréquigny, Le Blosne, Maurepas Bellangerais and Villejean Beauregard.
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