A smaller share of couples with children than 99% of compared French towns: 6.3%
Households without a car: 3.7%, below 96% of compared French towns. 185 residents in 84 households: that is Lonnes at the 2023 Census. For Lonnes, the census puts households headed by a manual worker at 25%. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are common here: 12%, more than in 79% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Charente 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 Lonnes
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 17 second homes and occasional dwellings in Lonnes, 16% of its 110 homes: higher than in 91% 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 ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 16% of its homes
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
7.8% of homes stand empty; in the typical compared French town the figure is 6.7%. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The share of second homes in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. Newcomers of less than two years account for nearly one in ten households, residents of 30 years or more for 28%.
From 2012 to 2023, Lonnes outgrew 77% of compared French towns: +13%
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 whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Charente town +1%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought +9%; 2017 to 2023, +4%.
Younger than 56% of compared French towns: half of Lonnes is under 43.3
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Lonnes 43.3. The median compared French town: 44.
On the census count, 23% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 19% in Lonnes, more than in 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 median and the France median
Living alone · share
38% of households are one person living alone (typical compared French town: 35%). Each household has 2.2 people on average. Measured more widely, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
€24,040 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.
The median standard of living in Lonnes is €24,040 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 71% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 76% of compared French towns, at 38%
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Typically, 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).
Lonnes ranks below 89% of compared French towns on immigrants: 2.2%
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 median compared commune in Charente has 4.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 89% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants. Put another way, about one in 45: 2.2% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
34% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%; Lonnes has 34%. Measured more widely, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Graduates of higher education: 21%, a lower share than 83% of compared French towns
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 tops 70% of compared French towns: 23%. Set beside that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
12th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 185 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.
A younger town than 5 of the 6 around it: Lonnes
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 Lonnes
What is the population of Lonnes?
185 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% more than in 2012 (164).
How old are Lonnes’ residents?
The median age is 43.3, younger than 56% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lonnes?
17, with occasional dwellings: 16% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lonnes?
INSEE counts 4 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.2% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (2.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Lonnes?
€24,040 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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