Above 97% of compared French towns: 49% of households are headed by a retired person
The share of one-person households trails 92% of compared French towns: 26%. At the 2023 Census Cléron was home to 289 people in 130 households. Here, 3.6% of households rent social housing (HLM). Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 6.6%, more than in just over four fifths of compared French towns.
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.
What stands out about the people of Cléron
Fewer residents than in 2012
Cléron had 317 residents at the 2012 census and 289 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Cléron’s residents are under 51.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 27% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 24 homes empty (14%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A −9% change since 2012: slower than 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved −3%, and from 2017 to 2023 −6%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Doubs town −1%.
Older than 87% of compared French towns: half of Cléron is over 51.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cléron 51.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.3%, below 76% of compared French towns. Locally, 27% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
32% of households are couples with children, a share 84% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. 12% of households are single parents, more than in 73% of compared French towns. Set beside that, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Cléron ranks above 95% of compared French towns on empty homes: 14%
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
Of all households, 6.7% moved in during the last two years and 32% have stayed three decades or more. Cléron has fewer flats than 78% of compared French towns, at 15%. In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%; Cléron has 4.4%.
Median living standard: €27,630 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 €27,630 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 67% of compared French towns.
Cléron sits above 61% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (16%)
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
Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 88% of compared French towns, at 2.4%
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.
1% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. On average, 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.
Single residents: 23%, a lower share than 71% 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 Cléron comes in at 44%. By way of comparison, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
13% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 82% 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
With graduates of higher education at 33%, Cléron is ahead of 62% of compared French towns on that count. The comparison figure for adults with no qualification is 19% in the typical compared French town.
10th highest median age among 41 French towns of 289 to 2,582
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.
1 of 6 neighbors are older than Cléron
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 Cléron
What is the population of Cléron?
289 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (317).
How old are Cléron’s residents?
The median age is 51.4, older than 87% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cléron?
11, with occasional dwellings: 6.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cléron?
INSEE counts 7 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cléron?
€27,630 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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