Households in social housing make up 0.6% in Thénac, less than in 99% of compared French towns
In Thénac, 4.8% of households are single parents, beside 10% in the typical compared French town. This Charente-Maritime town had 1,748 residents in 760 households at the 2023 census. Households without a car: 4.3% of the total. 4.2% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 91% 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.
A growing town: +8% since 2012, faster than 64% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Charente-Maritime town +8%. The first five years brought +4%; the six to 2023, +4%.
A median age of 47.5: Thénac is older than 72% 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
■ Thénac 47.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 11%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
Above 61% of compared French towns: 27% of households are couples with children
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 average 2.1 people. In the typical compared French town, 25% of households are couples with children. Few places have so few one-person households: 34% here, fewer than in 56% of compared French towns.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 2.3% of homes are flats
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
10% of households arrived within the last two years, while 13% have stayed 30 years or more. Higher than in 61% of compared French towns: 2.9% of homes are second homes. Little separates the share of empty homes here, 7.1%, from the figure in the typical compared French town.
€26,160 a year is the median standard of living here
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 €26,160 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
In Thénac, 34% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 57% 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
Put another way, about one in seven: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. To put it in context, 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).
Fewer immigrants than 93% of compared French towns: 1.9%
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.
With foreign nationals at 1%, Thénac is behind 94% of compared French towns on that count. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
24% of residents 15 and over are single, below 59% 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
The census found that 43% of residents 15 and over are married in Thénac. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Thénac ranks below 83% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 13%
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
The census found that 31% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Thénac. Set beside that, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,748 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).
Thénac 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 Thénac
What is the population of Thénac?
1,748 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% more than in 2012 (1,618).
How old are Thénac’s residents?
The median age is 47.5, older than 72% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Thénac?
25, with occasional dwellings: 2.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Thénac?
INSEE counts 33 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.9% of residents, and 18 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Thénac?
€26,160 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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