Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 90% of compared French towns: half of Chancelade is over 52.3
Households headed by a retired person: 45%, above 93% of compared French towns. Chancelade had 4,468 residents in 2,130 households at the 2023 census. For Chancelade, the census puts households without a car at 5.2%. On couples with children, Chancelade sits lower than 82% of compared French towns: 18%.
Throughout this page, the Dordogne 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 Chancelade
An older town
Half of Chancelade’s residents are under 52.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 32% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of +5% since 2012 leaves Chancelade behind 51% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved ±0%, and from 2017 to 2023 +5%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Dordogne town −1%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 89% of compared French towns, at 32%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Chancelade 52.3. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Chancelade has 9%. By way of comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
One-person households: 32%, a lower share than 64% 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 Dordogne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2.1 people on average. By way of comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. One in ten households are single parents, more than in 50% of compared French towns.
Below 90% of compared French towns: 8.3% of homes are flats
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
One household in 19 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. The wider picture: 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing make up about one in ten here (10%). Compared with other places, empty homes are common here: 7.8%, more than in just over three fifths of compared French towns.
A median of €26,350 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 €26,350 a year: higher than in 54% of compared French towns. The share living below the poverty line is 12.0%.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 72% of compared French towns: 6.5%
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
Set against 14% in the typical compared French town, just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker in Chancelade. Elsewhere, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 4.4% in Chancelade, less than in 69% 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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Chancelade has 2.6%. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
21% of residents 15 and over are single, below 85% 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
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Chancelade comes in at 48%. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 67% 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
By its share of graduates of higher education (28%), Chancelade is below 58% of compared French towns. Adults with no qualification make up 19% in the typical compared French town.
The 6th oldest of 41 French towns of 4,432 to 4,505 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.
Ages run from 35.7 in Guignes to 67 in Valras-Plage.
Every neighbor is younger than Chancelade
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chancelade | 52.3 | 32% | 2.5% | 4.4% |
| Marsac-sur-l'Isle 3,187 · 1.9 mi | 46.7 | 22% | 2.7% | 5.4% |
| Coulounieix-Chamiers 7,832 · 2.6 mi | 48.3 | 28% | 2.2% | 9.5% |
| Périgueux 29,055 · 3.3 mi | 44.6 | 25% | 5.4% | 9.1% |
| Champcevinel 3,126 · 3.6 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 2% | 4.4% |
| Trélissac 7,372 · 5.4 mi | 48.5 | 29% | 1.6% | 4.7% |
| Boulazac Isle Manoire 10,759 · 6 mi | 46.9 | 25% | 2.5% | 6.3% |
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 Chancelade
What is the population of Chancelade?
4,468 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (4,275).
How old are Chancelade’s residents?
The median age is 52.3, older than 90% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chancelade?
59, with occasional dwellings: 2.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chancelade?
INSEE counts 200 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.4% of residents, and 120 foreign nationals (2.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chancelade?
€26,350 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 12.0% 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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