Only 4.1% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Liesle
Set against 2.1% in the typical compared French town, 8.9% of homes are second homes in Liesle. In 2023, the Census found 558 residents locally, living in 250 households. 4% of households rent social housing (HLM). This Doubs town has fewer couples with children than 72% of compared French towns, at 20%.
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 Liesle
Empty homes
The census found 41 homes empty (13%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Liesle’s population changed by +9% since 2012, more than in 66% 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, +4% to 2017 and +5% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −1% in Doubs.
Liesle sits below 85% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (8.8%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Liesle 45.2. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Liesle is 45.2, higher than in 58% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. About one in four: that is how common residents aged 65 and over are in Liesle (23%).
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
In Liesle, 37% of households are one person living alone, more than in 57% 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 Doubs median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. Single-parent households are more common here than in 53% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 35% of households are one person living alone.
13% of homes stand empty, a share 91% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Car-free households: one in 10, where the median compared French town has 11%. Liesle has fewer flats than nearly two thirds of compared French towns, at 22%. Empty homes make up 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 9.7% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 26%.
Median living standard: €26,520 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.
Living standards centre on €26,520 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 56% of compared French towns.
39% of households are headed by a retired person, a share 80% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%; Liesle has 16%. The comparison figure for households headed by a retired person is 32% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.2% of residents in Liesle 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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Doubs has 8.5%. Here, 3.7% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Fewer married residents than 51% of compared French towns: 43%
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
Locally, 25% of residents 15 and over are single.
Adults with no qualification make up 23% in Liesle, more than in 68% 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
In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in Liesle, 27%. Measured more widely, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 558 to 2,582 people: this is the 20th youngest
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).
4 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Liesle
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 Liesle
What is the population of Liesle?
558 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (512).
How old are Liesle’s residents?
The median age is 45.2, older than 58% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Liesle?
29, with occasional dwellings: 8.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Liesle?
INSEE counts 35 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 20 foreign nationals (3.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Liesle?
€26,520 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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