Flats make up 3.8% in Rancennes, less than in 97% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Rancennes was home to 709 people in 300 households. The census found that 25% of households are one person living alone locally. Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 8.7% of residents are 15 to 24 here.
Throughout this page, the Ardennes 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 Rancennes
Immigrants
INSEE counts 100 immigrants in Rancennes (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 21% of residents, against 6.7% for the median compared commune in Ardennes. 16% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Rancennes changed by −2% from 2012 to 2023, behind 77% 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 Ardennes town changed −9% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought ±0% and the next six −1%.
A median age of 45.8: Rancennes is older than 62% 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
■ Rancennes 45.8. The median compared French town: 44.
21% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardennes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Rancennes sits below 62% of compared French towns for couples with children (23%)
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 Ardennes median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2.3 people. Across the comparison, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Single-parent households make up 9.9%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Fewer households without a car than 77% of compared French towns: 6.5%
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 in ten homes stand empty (typical compared French town: 6.7%). The wider picture: just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. For Rancennes, the census puts second homes at 3.5%.
At the median, €27,380 a year to live on
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.
Half of residents live in households above €27,380 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 65% of compared French towns.
Above 74% of compared French towns: 37% of households are headed by a retired person
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 12% in Rancennes and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% in the typical compared French town. Here, 13% of households are headed by a manual worker.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Rancennes: 21% of residents are immigrants, above 93% 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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 16% of residents are foreign nationals here. The median compared commune in Ardennes has 6.7%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 93% of compared French towns. The benchmark for immigrants in the typical compared French town: 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Rancennes ranks above 99% of compared French towns on married residents: 57%
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
16% of residents 15 and over are single (typical compared French town: 25%). Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 52% of compared French towns, at 29%
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
Census figures put adults with no qualification at 19% in Rancennes. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 19th 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.
Of the 3 towns nearest Rancennes, 2 are older
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 Rancennes
What is the population of Rancennes?
709 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% fewer than in 2012 (721).
How old are Rancennes’ residents?
The median age is 45.8, older than 62% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rancennes?
12, with occasional dwellings: 3.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rancennes?
INSEE counts 150 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 21% of residents, and 110 foreign nationals (16%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rancennes?
€27,380 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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