Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 99% of compared French towns: 2.2%
The share of flats trails 97% of compared French towns: 4.2%. The 2023 Census counted 1,088 residents in 530 households. Put another way, about one in 17: 5.8% of households are single parents. With a median age of 48.4, Savigny-en-Sancerre is older than 76% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Cher 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 Savigny-en-Sancerre
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 170 second homes and occasional dwellings in Savigny-en-Sancerre, 22% of its 770 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 98% 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.
Savigny-en-Sancerre ranks above 94% of compared French towns on second homes: 22%
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
Compared with 6.7% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten homes stand empty here. Meanwhile, on households in social housing, Savigny-en-Sancerre sits lower than 85% of compared French towns: 5.2%. In the typical compared French town, second homes come to 2.1%. Newcomers of less than two years account for 8.1% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 21%.
Slower growth than 56% of compared French towns: Savigny-en-Sancerre changed by +3% since 2012
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 Cher town −4%. The first five years brought −2%; the six to 2023, +6%.
Savigny-en-Sancerre ranks above 73% of compared French towns on residents aged 65 and over: 26%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Savigny-en-Sancerre 48.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Cher 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Savigny-en-Sancerre ranks above 73% of compared French towns on one-person households: 41%
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 Cher median and the France median
Living alone · share
25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, against 23% in Savigny-en-Sancerre. The benchmark for one-person households in the typical compared French town: 35%. There are 2.1 people in the average household.
The median resident lives on €25,700 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €25,700 a year: lower than in 53% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 45% in Savigny-en-Sancerre, more than in 93% 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
The share of households headed by a manual worker is 19%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 32% 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).
Immigrants: 2.5%, a lower share than 87% 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.
4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, against 1.7% in Savigny-en-Sancerre. For comparison, 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 22% of residents 15 and over are single in Savigny-en-Sancerre
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 41%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Only 24% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Savigny-en-Sancerre
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
Just over a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). For comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 1,088 to 2,582 people, 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).
No nearby town is as young as Savigny-en-Sancerre
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savigny-en-Sancerre | 48.4 | 26% | 22% | 2.5% |
| Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire 9,733 · 6.4 mi | 54.4 | 36% | 8.3% | 6.7% |
| Châtillon-sur-Loire 3,065 · 10.4 mi | 48.6 | 27% | 11% | 2.7% |
| Briare 4,911 · 14.2 mi | 54.1 | 34% | 9.7% | 12% |
| Aubigny-sur-Nère 5,451 · 17.6 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 4.8% | 5.2% |
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 Savigny-en-Sancerre
What is the population of Savigny-en-Sancerre?
1,088 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (1,053).
How old are Savigny-en-Sancerre’s residents?
The median age is 48.4, older than 76% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Savigny-en-Sancerre?
170, with occasional dwellings: 22% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Savigny-en-Sancerre?
INSEE counts 27 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.5% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (1.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Savigny-en-Sancerre?
€25,700 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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