Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.7% of homes are flats
11% of homes stand empty, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, households headed by a retired person are common here: 48%, more than in 96% of compared French towns. Rétaud had 1,058 residents in 460 households at the 2023 Census. Residents aged 15 to 24: 7.5% of the total.
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.
±0% since 2012, a pace below 71% 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 +1% from 2012 to 2017 and −1% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Charente-Maritime town +8%.
Half of Rétaud is over 47.9, older than 74% 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
■ Rétaud 47.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Rétaud has 25%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
Rétaud ranks below 88% of compared French towns on one-person households: 27%
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
Single-parent households: 8.7%, below 71% of compared French towns. Typically, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 2.3 people on average. At 26%, the share of couples with children is higher than in 55% of compared French towns.
Households without a car make up 3.5% in Rétaud, less than in 97% 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
6.4% of homes are second homes, against 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town.
The median resident lives on €24,800 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.
The median standard of living in Rétaud is €24,800 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 63% of compared French towns.
In Rétaud, 7.6% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 89% 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
Households headed by a manager or professional make up about one in 11 here (8.7%). Elsewhere, 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).
2.7% of residents are immigrants, below 84% 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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 1.2% of residents are foreign nationals here. Measured more widely, 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.
Only 18% of residents 15 and over are single in Rétaud
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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, 48% of residents 15 and over are married in Rétaud. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 59% of compared French towns: 27%
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: 17%, below 62% of compared French towns. The share of graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town is 30%.
41 French towns of 1,058 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th oldest
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).
Rétaud is younger than every town around it
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 Rétaud
What is the population of Rétaud?
1,058 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (1,062).
How old are Rétaud’s residents?
The median age is 47.9, older than 74% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rétaud?
36, with occasional dwellings: 6.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rétaud?
INSEE counts 29 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.7% of residents, and 13 foreign nationals (1.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rétaud?
€24,800 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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