Below 96% of compared French towns: 7.3% of residents are 15 to 24
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Sablonceaux’s 660 households held 1,458 residents at the 2023 Census. Census figures put households without a car at 4.1% in the town. Second homes make up 9.4%, against 2.1% 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.
Sablonceaux’s population changed by +11% since 2012, more than in 72% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +6%, and from 2017 to 2023 +4%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Charente-Maritime town +8%.
A median age of 49.4: Sablonceaux is older than 81% 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
■ Sablonceaux 49.4. The median compared French town: 44.
26% of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 30% in Sablonceaux, less than in 79% 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
Households here average 2.2 people each. Few places have so few single-parent households: 7.9% here, fewer than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. Set beside that, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. On couples with children, 25% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
Flats: 4.9%, a lower share than 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
In the last two years, nearly one in ten households moved in; at the other end, 20% have stayed 30 years or more. At 6.3%, the share of empty homes is in line with the figure in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €24,780 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 €24,780 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 63% of compared French towns.
Sablonceaux sits above 75% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (37%)
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
By its share of households headed by a manager or professional (7.1%), Sablonceaux is below two thirds of compared French towns. The usual figure: nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. About one in seven: that is how common households headed by a manual worker are in Sablonceaux (14%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 84% of compared French towns, at 2.7%
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 share of foreign nationals is 2.2%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
20% of residents 15 and over are single, below 92% 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
48% of residents 15 and over are married, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Sablonceaux ranks below 68% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 25%
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
Compared with 19% in the typical compared French town, 18% of adults out of school have no qualification here. Across the comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,458 to 2,582 people), the 14th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Every neighbor is older than Sablonceaux
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 Sablonceaux
What is the population of Sablonceaux?
1,458 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% more than in 2012 (1,315).
How old are Sablonceaux’s residents?
The median age is 49.4, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Sablonceaux?
73, with occasional dwellings: 9.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Sablonceaux?
INSEE counts 40 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.7% of residents, and 32 foreign nationals (2.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Sablonceaux?
€24,780 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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