Below 99% of compared French towns: 2.1% of households have no car
2% of households rent social housing (HLM); in the typical compared French town the figure is 12%. Flats make up about one in 16 here (6.1%). With a median age of 50.2, Samognat is older than 84% of compared French towns. The town had 630 residents in 270 households at the 2023 Census.
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.
What stands out about the people of Samognat
A town of families
36% of households are couples with children and 1.8% single parents with children; 14% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Samognat had 691 residents at the 2012 census and 630 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Samognat has changed by −9%, slower than 96% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Ain town +13%.
Samognat sits below 78% of compared French towns for residents aged 65 and over (18%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Samognat 50.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Roughly one in ten: 10% of residents are 15 to 24. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ain 51.0%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children make up 36% in Samognat, more than in 95% 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 Ain median and the France median
Living alone · share
Set against 35% in the typical compared French town, nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone in Samognat. What’s more, 1.8% of households are single parents, a lower share than in 99% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Samognat ranks below 89% of compared French towns on empty homes: 3.8%
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
Second homes make up 5.7%, against 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Long tenure is the mark of 18% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 2.5% (under two years). By way of comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €30,000 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.
At €30,000 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 84% of compared French towns.
Above 83% of compared French towns: 17% of households are headed by a manager or professional
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 manual worker: 21% here and 14% in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, households headed by a retired person are scarce here: 26%, fewer than in nearly four fifths of compared French towns. Set beside that, 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.9% of Samognat’s residents are immigrants
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.
About one in 14: that is how common immigrants are in Samognat (6.9%). That is higher than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Ain has 8.5%. Foreign nationals are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 4.1%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Above 95% of compared French towns: 51% of residents 15 and over are married
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
Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of single residents in Samognat comes in at 21%. In the typical compared French town, 43% of residents 15 and over are married.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 78% of compared French towns, at 14%
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
32% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, against 30% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town: 19%.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 630 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).
No nearby town is as old as Samognat
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 Samognat
What is the population of Samognat?
630 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (691).
How old are Samognat’s residents?
The median age is 50.2, older than 84% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Samognat?
17, with occasional dwellings: 5.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Samognat?
INSEE counts 44 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.9% of residents, and 26 foreign nationals (4.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Samognat?
€30,000 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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