Flats: 1.5%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 6.2% in Avy and 11% in the typical compared French town. Fewer households without a car than in 86% of compared French towns: 5.3%. This Charente-Maritime town had 510 residents in 230 households at the 2023 Census. Households headed by a manager or professional account for 4.2%.
Throughout this page, the Charente-Maritime 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 Avy
An older town
Half of Avy’s residents are under 52.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 27% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.2% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A growing town: +9% since 2012, faster than 67% 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 change was +2% from 2012 to 2017 and +7% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Charente-Maritime town +8%.
A median age of 52.9: Avy is older than 91% 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
■ Avy 52.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Against a figure of 22% in the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Avy comes in at 27%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 31% in Avy, less than in 72% 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 Charente-Maritime median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2.2 people. Compared with other places, couples with children are scarce here: 22%, fewer than in 64% of compared French towns. On average, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. In Avy, just over one in ten households are single parents, beside 10% in the typical compared French town.
A larger share of second homes than 82% of compared French towns: 6.7%
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 household in 19 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. Set beside that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Empty homes make up about one in 17 here (5.9%). Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
The median resident lives on €25,390 a year per consumption unit
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 Avy’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,390 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 56% of compared French towns.
In Avy, 21% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 87% of compared French towns
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 retired person is 35% in Avy and 32% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Avy, 3.7% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 75% 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.
Foreign nationals make up about one in 27 here (3.7%). For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 99% of compared French towns: 16%
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
Married residents: 50%, above 92% of compared French towns. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 90% of compared French towns: 18%
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
Avy has fewer adults with no qualification than 53% of compared French towns, at 18%. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
The 8th oldest of 41 French towns of 510 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Nearby, 1 of 6 towns have older populations than Avy
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 Avy
What is the population of Avy?
510 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (467).
How old are Avy’s residents?
The median age is 52.9, older than 91% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Avy?
18, with occasional dwellings: 6.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Avy?
INSEE counts 19 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.7% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (3.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Avy?
€25,390 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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