Older than 87% of compared French towns: half of Rognes is over 51.2
The share of households in social housing is 3.8%, against 12% in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in seven: 15% of homes are flats. Rognes has fewer households without a car than 94% of compared French towns, at 4%. There were 1,990 households in the town at the 2023 Census, home to 4,693 residents.
Throughout this page, the Bouches-du-Rhône 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 Rognes
An older town
Half of Rognes’ residents are under 51.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9.2% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many graduates
49% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 22% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 69% of compared French towns: Rognes changed by ±0% since 2012
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 Bouches-du-Rhône town +6%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +1%; from 2017 to 2023, −1%.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7.8% in Rognes, less than in 94% 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
■ Rognes 51.2. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 22%; Rognes has 29%. Set beside that, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Bouches-du-Rhône 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 73% of compared French towns: 31%
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 Bouches-du-Rhône median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 2.2 people in the average household. As a reference point, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few single-parent households: 8.9% here, fewer than in 69% of compared French towns. At the same time, in Rognes, just over a quarter of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town.
Rognes sits above 80% of compared French towns for second homes (5.9%)
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
By its share of empty homes (9%), Rognes is above 72% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for second homes is 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Households that moved in under two years ago: 9.2%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 22%.
Half above, half below €32,800 a year in standard of living
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 median standard of living in Rognes is €32,800 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 93% of compared French towns. Under the poverty line sit 10.0% of residents.
More households headed by a manager or professional than 90% of compared French towns: 22%
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 Rognes, 34% of households are headed by a retired person, beside 32% in the typical compared French town. 6.9% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 91% of compared French towns. Against that, nearly one in ten 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).
Below 68% of compared French towns: 2.8% of residents are foreign nationals
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.
Immigrants make up 5.3%, against 6.5% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 60% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Bouches-du-Rhône has 6.3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Rognes ranks below 88% of compared French towns on single residents: 21%
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
In Rognes, 46% of residents 15 and over are married, beside 43% in the typical compared French town. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
49% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, a share 92% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Here 12% of adults out of school have no qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 19%. Across the comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 4,660 to 4,726 people, the 8th oldest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Auzeville-Tolosane is the youngest (30.5); Bourbon-Lancy the oldest (57.2).
Rognes is older than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rognes | 51.2 | 29% | 5.9% | 5.3% |
| Saint-Cannat 6,097 · 3.7 mi | 46.2 | 24% | 2.4% | 4.6% |
| La Roque-d'Anthéron 5,459 · 4.1 mi | 45 | 22% | 3% | 10% |
| Lambesc 10,024 · 4.1 mi | 45.4 | 23% | 3.5% | 5.2% |
| Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade 5,935 · 4.6 mi | 47.5 | 24% | 3.6% | 5.6% |
| Cadenet 4,363 · 5 mi | 46 | 25% | 5.9% | 5.4% |
| Villelaure 3,398 · 5.6 mi | 45 | 19% | 4.1% | 3.6% |
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 Rognes
What is the population of Rognes?
4,693 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (4,684).
How old are Rognes’ residents?
The median age is 51.2, older than 87% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rognes?
140, with occasional dwellings: 5.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rognes?
INSEE counts 250 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.3% of residents, and 130 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rognes?
€32,800 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 10.0% 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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