Belluire ranks above 98% of compared French towns on couples with children: 39%
Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Belluire’s 90 households held 214 residents at the 2023 Census. 4.3% of homes are flats. In Belluire, 3.3% of households have no car, beside 11% in the typical compared French town.
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 Belluire
A town of families
39% of households are couples with children and 11% single parents with children; 16% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Empty homes
The census found 18 homes empty (15%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Belluire has changed by −1%, slower than 74% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and +8% for the median Charente-Maritime town, the change came in two steps: −4% from 2012 to 2017, then +3% to 2023.
Belluire is older than 57% of compared French towns: a median age of 45
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Belluire 45. The median compared French town: 44.
On residents aged 15 to 24, 11% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town. In Belluire, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
Belluire ranks below 98% of compared French towns on one-person households: 22%
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
11% of households are single parents; in the typical compared French town the figure is 10%. In the typical compared French town, one-person households come to 35%. Households here average 2.4 people each.
Empty homes make up 15% in Belluire, more than in 96% 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
27% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 7.8% moved in within the last two years. As a reference point, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 8.5%, more than in 86% of compared French towns.
The median resident lives on €23,930 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 Belluire’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €23,930 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 72% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a manual worker than 99% of compared French towns, at 28%
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
39% of households are headed by a retired person, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 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 Belluire, 2.3% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 88% 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.
4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, against 1.9% in Belluire. Against that, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Fewer married residents than 63% of compared French towns: 41%
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
Just over a quarter of residents 15 and over are single, or about one in four. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Belluire sits below 91% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (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
Adults with no qualification: 14% here and 19% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 20th youngest of 41 French towns of 214 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).
Belluire sits below 5 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Belluire
What is the population of Belluire?
214 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (216).
How old are Belluire’s residents?
The median age is 45, older than 57% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Belluire?
10, with occasional dwellings: 8.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Belluire?
INSEE counts 5 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.3% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (1.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Belluire?
€23,930 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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