Below 99% of compared French towns: 2.2% of homes are flats
Households without a car make up 4.4%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Moëze counted 600 residents and 270 households at the 2023 Census. On the census count, 6.9% of residents are 15 to 24. Few places have as many second homes: 6.4% here, more than in just over four fifths 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.
From 2012 to 2023, Moëze outgrew 66% of compared French towns: +9%
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 Charente-Maritime town +8%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +2%; from 2017 to 2023, +6%.
Above 67% of compared French towns: 25% of residents are 65 or over
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Moëze 45.8. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Moëze is 45.8, higher than in 62% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
5.5% of households are single parents, below 98% 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
One-person households make up 33%, against 35% in the typical compared French town. Census figures put couples with children at 30% in Moëze. The share of single-parent households in the typical compared French town is 10%.
Moëze ranks below 99% of compared French towns on households in social housing: 0.7%
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
Long tenure is the mark of 22% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 7.7% (under two years). Elsewhere, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. On empty homes, Moëze sits higher than 60% of compared French towns: 7.6%.
At the median, €24,420 a year to live on
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.
At €24,420 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
Only 3.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Moëze
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
Compared with 14% in the typical compared French town, a fifth of households are headed by a manual worker here. By way of comparison, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town. In Moëze, 33% of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 99% of compared French towns, at 1%
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.
In Moëze, 0.5% of residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 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.
Single residents: 20%, a lower share than 91% 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
Married people make up 44% and PACS partners 13%, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 5.9% are widowed. As a yardstick, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 82% of compared French towns: 21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
In Moëze, 15% of adults out of school have no qualification, beside 19% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
20th highest median age among 41 French towns of 600 to 2,582
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 5 are older than Moëze
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moëze | 45.8 | 25% | 6.4% | 1% |
| Soubise 3,316 · 1.9 mi | 32.5 | 20% | 3.2% | 1.8% |
| Échillais 3,765 · 3.9 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 2.3% | 2% |
| Rochefort 23,460 · 4.2 mi | 50.7 | 30% | 11% | 6.6% |
| Saint-Agnant 2,780 · 4.5 mi | 48.3 | 25% | 3.5% | 1.5% |
| Marennes-Hiers-Brouage 6,163 · 6.1 mi | 57 | 37% | 20% | 1.8% |
| Fouras 4,148 · 6.3 mi | 62.9 | 45% | 45% | 2% |
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 Moëze
What is the population of Moëze?
600 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (551).
How old are Moëze’s residents?
The median age is 45.8, older than 62% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Moëze?
20, with occasional dwellings: 6.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Moëze?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (0.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Moëze?
€24,420 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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