Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC0A larger share of flats than 82% of compared French towns: 58%
Half of Montluel’s residents are under 40.9, younger than in nearly three quarters of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 6,895 residents and 3,080 households locally. Households headed by a manager or professional: 16% of the total. In the typical compared French town, the share of households in social housing is 12%; Montluel has 18%.
Throughout this page, the Ain 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.
A −3% change since 2012: slower than 81% 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 median Ain town changed +13% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −2% and the next six −1%.
A higher share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 82% of compared French towns, at 13%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Montluel 40.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 19% of residents are 65 or over in Montluel. To put it in context, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of one-person households than 63% of compared French towns, at 38%
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 Ain median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.2 people. As a yardstick, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. More couples with children than in three fifths of compared French towns: 27%. Single-parent households: 10%, near enough the figure in the typical compared French town.
Empty homes: 7.8%, a higher share than 62% 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
One household in nine has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. Compared with other places, second homes are scarce here: 1.2%, fewer than in 73% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for empty homes is 6.7% in the typical compared French town. The census found that 12% of households have no car in Montluel.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €26,400 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 midpoint of living standards here is €26,400 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 55% of compared French towns. Living below the poverty line: 15.0% of residents.
Households headed by a retired person make up 26% in Montluel, less than in 79% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%; Montluel has 16%. The share of households headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A larger share of immigrants than 84% of compared French towns: 14%
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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 10% of residents are foreign nationals in Montluel. Against that, 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.
Montluel sits above 71% of compared French towns for single residents (28%)
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
40% of residents 15 and over are married; in the typical compared French town the figure is 43%. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Above 63% of compared French towns: 34% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
Adults with no qualification make up 22%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
Among 41 French towns of 6,816 to 6,969 people, the 10th youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit La Plaine-des-Palmistes (37.4), the youngest, and Nyons (60.6), the oldest.
No nearby town is as old as Montluel
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 Montluel
What is the population of Montluel?
6,895 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (7,112).
How old are Montluel’s residents?
The median age is 40.9, younger than 74% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Montluel?
40, with occasional dwellings: 1.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Montluel?
INSEE counts 980 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 14% of residents, and 710 foreign nationals (10%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Montluel?
€26,400 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 15.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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