Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.9% of homes are flats
By its share of households without a car (4.7%), Le Chillou is below 90% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 163 people lived here, in 84 households. Here, 7.9% of residents are 15 to 24. Compared with other places, households headed by a retired person are common here: 47%, more than in 95% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Deux-Sèvres 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 Le Chillou
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 19 second homes and occasional dwellings in Le Chillou, 17% of its 110 homes: higher than in 92% 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 ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Le Chillou had 179 residents at the 2012 census and 163 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Le Chillou’s residents are under 51 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 28% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 17%, a higher share than 92% 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 2.1% of homes are second homes. 38% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 8.2% moved in within the last two years. Le Chillou sits close to the norm on empty homes: 7.2%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
−9% since 2012, a pace below 96% 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
In two steps, −7% to 2017 and −2% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +1% in Deux-Sèvres.
Older than 86% of compared French towns: half of Le Chillou is over 51
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Le Chillou 51. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 28%, against 22% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 5.9% in Le Chillou, less than in 96% 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 Deux-Sèvres median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 1.9 people. Compared with other places, couples with children are scarce here: 18%, fewer than in 83% of compared French towns. On average, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Here 41% of households are one person living alone, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 35%.
Half above, half below €25,440 a year in standard of living
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 midpoint of living standards here is €25,440 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
Le Chillou ranks above 99% of compared French towns on households headed by a manual worker: 29%
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 manager or professional is 5.9%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for households headed by a manual worker is 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.1% of Le Chillou’s residents are immigrants
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.
That is lower than in 54% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Deux-Sèvres has 3.7%. Put another way, about one in 16: 6.1% of residents are immigrants. Foreign nationals: 4.3%, near enough the figure 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 21% of residents 15 and over are single in Le Chillou
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
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Le Chillou comes in at 46%. As a yardstick, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 10% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
By its share of adults with no qualification (28%), Le Chillou is above 87% of compared French towns. For graduates of higher education, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
41 French towns of 163 to 2,582 people: this is the 11th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Median age: 2 of the 6 towns around Le Chillou are older
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 Le Chillou
What is the population of Le Chillou?
163 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (179).
How old are Le Chillou’s residents?
The median age is 51, older than 86% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Chillou?
19, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Chillou?
INSEE counts 10 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.1% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (4.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Chillou?
€25,440 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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