A lower share of households headed by a manager or professional than 99% of compared French towns, at 1.7%
Here 4.2% of homes are flats, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. 29% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 81% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 687 residents and 300 households in Champagnolles. In Champagnolles, 5.3% of households have no car.
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 Champagnolles
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 42 second homes and occasional dwellings in Champagnolles, 11% of its 380 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 98% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
11% of homes in Champagnolles are second homes
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
Where 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town, Champagnolles has 9.4%. The comparison figure for second homes is 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 8.3% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 17%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Growth of +16% since 2012 puts Champagnolles ahead of 84% 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 Charente-Maritime town changed +8% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +9% and the next six +6%.
Only 8.9% of residents are 15 to 24 in Champagnolles
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Champagnolles 46.5. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 46.5, Champagnolles is older than 66% of compared French towns. About one in five: that is how common residents aged 65 and over are in Champagnolles (22%). Measured more widely, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of single-parent households than 72% of compared French towns, at 12%
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
A household here holds 2.3 people on average. Set beside that, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, 27% of households are couples with children here.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €22,130 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 Champagnolles’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €22,130 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 88% of compared French towns.
45% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 93% 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
15% of households are headed by a manual worker. Against that, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Champagnolles sits below 72% of compared French towns for immigrants (4.2%)
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.
The median compared commune in Charente-Maritime has 3.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 72% of compared French towns. Typically, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The census found that 2.7% of residents are foreign nationals in Champagnolles.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents: 21%, a lower share than 89% of compared French towns
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 Champagnolles, the census puts married residents at 44%. As a reference point, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 88% of compared French towns, at 19%
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
Put another way, about one in five: a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification. Graduates of higher education: 30% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
The 18th oldest of 41 French towns of 687 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is older than Champagnolles
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 Champagnolles
What is the population of Champagnolles?
687 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 16% more than in 2012 (592).
How old are Champagnolles’ residents?
The median age is 46.5, older than 66% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Champagnolles?
42, with occasional dwellings: 11% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Champagnolles?
INSEE counts 29 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.2% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (2.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Champagnolles?
€22,130 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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