Virollet is older than 91% of compared French towns: a median age of 53.2
By its share of households headed by a manager or professional (3.5%), Virollet is below 95% of compared French towns. On flats, Virollet sits lower than 99% of compared French towns: 0.5%. Its 130 households held 294 residents at the 2023 Census. Households without a car account for 3%.
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 Virollet
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 20 second homes and occasional dwellings in Virollet, 12% of its 170 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Virollet’s residents are under 53.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.9% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 12%, a higher share than 89% 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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 9.8% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 32%. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Just over one in ten homes stand empty; in the typical compared French town the figure is 6.7%.
+15% since 2012, a pace 81% of compared French towns didn’t match
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 +7%, and from 2017 to 2023 +7%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Charente-Maritime town +8%.
Virollet: 34% of residents are 65 or over, above 92% 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
■ Virollet 53.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Here nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. To put it in context, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
3.6% of households are single parents, below 99% 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
Each household has 2.2 people on average. For comparison, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. At 28%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 86% of compared French towns. Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children in Virollet comes in at 26%.
The median resident lives on €24,380 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.
At €24,380 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
In Virollet, 53% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 98% 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
Census figures put households headed by a manual worker at 15% in Virollet. 3.5% of the town’s households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 53% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 4.1% of residents are immigrants in Virollet
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 73% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Charente-Maritime has 3.1%. By way of comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. For Virollet, the census puts foreign nationals at 3.4%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Virollet ranks below 97% of compared French towns on single residents: 18%
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 share of married residents is 49%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Virollet ranks below 91% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 18%
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 share of adults with no qualification is 27%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 7th oldest of 41 French towns of 294 to 2,582 people
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
3 of 6 neighbors are older than Virollet
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 Virollet
What is the population of Virollet?
294 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% more than in 2012 (256).
How old are Virollet’s residents?
The median age is 53.2, older than 91% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Virollet?
20, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Virollet?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.1% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (3.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Virollet?
€24,380 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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