Households headed by a manager or professional: 4.5%, a lower share than 90% of compared French towns
With flats at 8.5%, Champlive is behind 89% of compared French towns on that count. About one in four: that is how common residents aged 65 and over are in Champlive (28%). Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. There were 110 households in the town at the 2023 Census, home to 253 residents.
Throughout this page, the Doubs 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.
Slower than most: −3% since 2012, behind 83% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Doubs town −1%.
Older than 81% of compared French towns: half of Champlive is over 49.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Champlive 49.4. The median compared French town: 44.
11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, against 13% in Champlive.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
Champlive ranks below 86% of compared French towns on one-person households: 28%
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 Doubs median and the France median
Living alone · share
By its share of couples with children (27%), Champlive is above 58% of compared French towns. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Champlive ranks below 76% of compared French towns on households without a car: 6.6%
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 15 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Few places have so few empty homes: 5.1% here, fewer than in 73% of compared French towns. Second homes make up about one in 24 here (4.2%).
€26,920 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.
Living standards centre on €26,920 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 60% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a retired person than 86% of compared French towns: 41%
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
Across Champlive, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. By way of comparison, 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).
Champlive sits below 90% of compared French towns for foreign nationals (1.2%)
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.
2.9% of residents are immigrants (typical compared French town: 6.5%). The wider picture: 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share lower than in 83% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Doubs has 8.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
22% of residents 15 and over are single, below 77% 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
Married residents: 45%, above 67% of compared French towns. As a reference point, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
24% of adults out of school have no qualification, more than in 72% 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
Graduates of higher education: 25%, below 70% of compared French towns. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
41 French towns of 253 to 2,582 people: this is the 14th 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).
Champlive sits below 1 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champlive | 49.4 | 28% | 4.2% | 2.9% |
| Baume-les-Dames 5,155 · 6.7 mi | 48.7 | 29% | 1.4% | 4.2% |
| Saône 3,195 · 7.7 mi | 46.1 | 24% | 0.7% | 3.3% |
| Thise 2,994 · 8.1 mi | 53.1 | 34% | 0.8% | 3.6% |
| Valdahon 5,705 · 10.6 mi | 35.2 | 18% | 1.6% | 5.6% |
| Besançon 118,489 · 11.3 mi | 35.6 | 19% | 2.5% | 15% |
| École-Valentin 2,579 · 12.1 mi | 42.9 | 21% | 1.6% | 6.1% |
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 Champlive
What is the population of Champlive?
253 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (262).
How old are Champlive’s residents?
The median age is 49.4, older than 81% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Champlive?
5, with occasional dwellings: 4.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Champlive?
INSEE counts 7 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.9% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (1.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Champlive?
€26,920 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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