A smaller share of flats than 99% of compared French towns: 0.4%
Households in social housing make up 1.4%, against 12% in the typical compared French town. Quinssaines had 1,528 residents in 630 households at the 2023 Census. Locally, 2.9% of households have no car. Lower than in 83% of compared French towns: 8.9% of residents are 15 to 24.
Throughout this page, the Allier 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 Quinssaines
A town of families
36% of households are couples with children and 9.4% single parents with children; 19% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +9% change since 2012: Quinssaines grew faster than 65% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Allier town −1%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +6%; from 2017 to 2023, +3%.
24% of residents are 65 or over, a share 60% of compared French towns don’t reach
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Quinssaines 44.5. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 44.5, Quinssaines is older than 53% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Allier 52.6%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 99% of compared French towns: 21%
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 Allier median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2.4 people on average. 36% of households are couples with children, more than in 94% of compared French towns. One-person households: 35% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. There is little gap on single-parent households: 9.4%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
7.9% of homes stand empty, more than in 63% 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
Of all households, 5.4% moved in during the last two years and 28% have stayed three decades or more. 2.5% of homes are second homes, more than in 55% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €27,200 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 €27,200 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 63% of compared French towns.
Quinssaines sits above 67% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (36%)
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
The figure for households headed by a manager or professional is 7.1% in Quinssaines and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manual worker make up about one in eight here (13%). Set beside that, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer foreign nationals than 87% of compared French towns: 1.4%
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.
With immigrants at 3.7%, Quinssaines is behind 76% of compared French towns on that count. Typically, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
19% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 94% of compared French towns
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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 48% in Quinssaines. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
13% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 82% of compared French towns
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
With graduates of higher education at 28%, Quinssaines is behind 56% of compared French towns on that count. The share of adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town is 19%.
The 16th youngest of 41 French towns of 1,528 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
No nearby town is as young as Quinssaines
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 Quinssaines
What is the population of Quinssaines?
1,528 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (1,408).
How old are Quinssaines’ residents?
The median age is 44.5, older than 53% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Quinssaines?
17, with occasional dwellings: 2.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Quinssaines?
INSEE counts 57 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.7% of residents, and 22 foreign nationals (1.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Quinssaines?
€27,200 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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