Saint-Laurent ranks below 98% of compared French towns on households without a car: 3.1%
Residents aged 15 to 24: 16%, above 97% of compared French towns. Saint-Laurent is home to 1,050 residents in 440 households, by the 2023 Census. One-person households make up about one in four here (27%). Households headed by a manager or professional are more common here than in just over four fifths of compared French towns.
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 Saint-Laurent
Fewer residents than in 2012
Saint-Laurent had 1,167 residents at the 2012 census and 1,050 in 2023, down 10%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Saint-Laurent changed by −10% from 2012 to 2023, behind 97% 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
Here the change came as −5% to 2017, then −5% to 2023.
Half of Saint-Laurent is over 49.4, older than 81% 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
■ Saint-Laurent 49.4. The median compared French town: 44.
On the census count, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardennes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Fewer couples with children than 56% of compared French towns: 24%
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
There is little gap on single-parent households: 9.1%, about the same as in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 2.2 people.
A lower share of flats than 91% of compared French towns, at 7.9%
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
In the typical compared French town, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM); in Saint-Laurent, 5.4%. The census found that 0.2% of homes are second homes locally. 8.5% of homes stand empty, a higher share than in 69% of compared French towns. For flats, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €29,480 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.
Half of residents live in households above €29,480 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 81% of compared French towns.
The largest group of households: retired (32%)
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 census found that 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in Saint-Laurent.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 1.4% in Saint-Laurent, less than in 97% 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.
Here 0.8% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. Against that, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Ardennes has 6.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 97% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
More married residents than 79% of compared French towns: 47%
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
For Saint-Laurent, the census puts single residents at 26%. As a yardstick, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Only 13% of adults out of school have no qualification in Saint-Laurent
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
Where 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, Saint-Laurent has 35%. In the typical compared French town, adults with no qualification come to 19%.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 1,050 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).
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 1 are older than Saint-Laurent
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Laurent | 49.4 | 21% | 0.2% | 1.4% |
| Villers-Semeuse 3,615 · 1.8 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 0.5% | 5.8% |
| Charleville-Mézières 45,560 · 2.5 mi | 43.4 | 23% | 2.3% | 11% |
| Vivier-au-Court 2,732 · 2.9 mi | 42.4 | 20% | 0.4% | 11% |
| Vrigne aux Bois 3,518 · 4 mi | 44.9 | 22% | 1.2% | 4.3% |
| Nouzonville 5,523 · 4.1 mi | 46 | 23% | 0.9% | 6.2% |
| Bogny-sur-Meuse 4,889 · 6.5 mi | 43.5 | 22% | 1.5% | 4.3% |
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 Saint-Laurent
What is the population of Saint-Laurent?
1,050 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% fewer than in 2012 (1,167).
How old are Saint-Laurent’s residents?
The median age is 49.4, older than 81% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Laurent?
1, with occasional dwellings: 0.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Laurent?
INSEE counts 15 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.4% of residents, and 8 foreign nationals (0.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Laurent?
€29,480 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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