Le Douhet sits below 96% of compared French towns for households without a car (3.6%)
Against a figure of 10% in the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households in Le Douhet comes in at 6.1%. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 708, in 330 households. For Le Douhet, the census puts households headed by a retired person at 38%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
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 Le Douhet
An older town
Half of Le Douhet’s residents are under 50.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 28% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, 61% of compared French towns grew faster than Le Douhet: +2%
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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +3%, then −1% to 2023. Over those years, the median Charente-Maritime town changed +8% and the median compared French town +5%.
Half of Le Douhet is over 50.9, older than 86% 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
■ Le Douhet 50.9. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over tops 81% of compared French towns: 28%. Put another way, about one in 11: 8.8% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
Below 82% of compared French towns: 29% of households are one person living alone
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
The average household has 2.2 people. Fewer couples with children than in 62% of compared French towns: 23%. As a reference point, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Le Douhet sits below 89% of compared French towns for flats (8.9%)
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
7.7% of homes are second homes; in the typical compared French town the figure is 2.1%. Empty homes account for 10%. For flats, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
Median standard of living: €25,820 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.
Living standards centre on €25,820 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 51% of compared French towns.
Only 7.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Le Douhet
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
Set against 14% in the typical compared French town, just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker in Le Douhet. As a reference point, 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).
Immigrants make up 2% in Le Douhet, less than in 92% 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.
The median compared commune in Charente-Maritime has 3.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 92% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Census figures put foreign nationals at 1% in Le Douhet.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents make up 19% in Le Douhet, less than in 95% 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
In couples, 46% are married and 9.1% in a PACS (median compared French town: 43% and 6.1%); 6.3% are widowed. Set beside that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification make up 15% in Le Douhet, less than in 76% of compared French towns
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
With graduates of higher education at 27%, Le Douhet is behind nearly three fifths of compared French towns on that count. On average, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 11th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 4 are older than Le Douhet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Douhet | 50.9 | 28% | 7.7% | 2% |
| Saintes 25,363 · 5.1 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 5.5% |
| Chaniers 3,651 · 5.2 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 4% | 2% |
| Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux 2,843 · 6.7 mi | 51.3 | 30% | 2.4% | 2.1% |
| Saint-Jean-d'Angély 6,784 · 9.9 mi | 56 | 36% | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Val-de-Cognac 3,471 · 11.3 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 3.9% | 3.1% |
| Cognac 18,532 · 14.5 mi | 44.7 | 24% | 2.8% | 6.3% |
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 Le Douhet
What is the population of Le Douhet?
708 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (694).
How old are Le Douhet’s residents?
The median age is 50.9, older than 86% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Douhet?
31, with occasional dwellings: 7.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Douhet?
INSEE counts 14 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Douhet?
€25,820 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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