Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0Magné is older than 97% of compared French towns: a median age of 57.7
In Magné, 5.6% of homes are flats, beside 30% in the typical compared French town. The town’s 1,370 households held 2,728 residents at the 2023 Census. 4.1% of households have no car, or about one in 24. At 47%, the share of households headed by a retired person is higher 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 Magné
An older town
Half of Magné’s residents are under 57.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 37% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A ±0% change since 2012: slower than 70% 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, −2% to 2017 and +2% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +1% in Deux-Sèvres.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 96% of compared French towns, at 37%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Magné 57.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 7%, below 97% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Magné sits below 93% of compared French towns for single-parent households (6.5%)
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
By its share of couples with children (19%), Magné is below nearly four fifths of compared French towns. Each household has 2 people on average. To put it in context, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Below 83% of compared French towns: 5.7% of households rent social housing (HLM)
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
7.5% of households moved in less than two years ago; 32% have been in their home 30 years or more. For comparison, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. More second homes than in just over three quarters of compared French towns: 4.8%. Where 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town, Magné has 5.7%.
Standard of living at the median: €28,870 a year
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 €28,870 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 78% of compared French towns. As for poverty, 6.0% of residents are below the line.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 88% of compared French towns: 7.9%
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
13% of households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 80% of compared French towns, at 3.2%
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.
Foreign nationals: 1.8% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 97% of compared French towns: 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
Married residents make up 50%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 69% of compared French towns: 16%
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
32% of Magné’s residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 16% have no diploma (19%).
5th highest median age among 41 French towns of 2,698 to 2,762
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Trieux is the youngest (37.7); Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie the oldest (61.9).
Magné is older 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 Magné
What is the population of Magné?
2,728 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (2,727).
How old are Magné’s residents?
The median age is 57.7, older than 97% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 37% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Magné?
74, with occasional dwellings: 4.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Magné?
INSEE counts 87 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.2% of residents, and 48 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Magné?
€28,870 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 6.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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