Households without a car: 2.8%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
Where 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town, Roches-lès-Blamont has 24%. On the census count, 16% of households are single parents. Flats are rarer here than in 88% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 612 people lived locally, in 270 households.
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 Roches-lès-Blamont
An older town
Half of Roches-lès-Blamont’s residents are under 51.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 27% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Roches-lès-Blamont changed by −3% from 2012 to 2023, behind 81% 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
The median Doubs town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought ±0% and the next six −3%.
Only 6.9% of residents are 15 to 24 in Roches-lès-Blamont
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Roches-lès-Blamont 51.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of Roches-lès-Blamont’s residents are over 51.3, older than in 87% of compared French towns. On average, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. In Roches-lès-Blamont, 27% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 30% in Roches-lès-Blamont, less than in 78% 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
Where 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, Roches-lès-Blamont has 23%. Across the comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.2 people.
Roches-lès-Blamont sits below 64% of compared French towns for empty homes (5.7%)
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. The share of second homes stands at 1.6%. Some 4.6% of households are newcomers of under two years, against 38% who have been there 30 years or more.
Standard of living at the median: €28,660 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €28,660 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 76% of compared French towns.
36% of households are headed by a retired person, a share 69% 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
The share of households headed by a manager or professional is 7.4%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 32% 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).
Roches-lès-Blamont ranks below 82% of compared French towns on immigrants: 3%
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, Roches-lès-Blamont has 1.7%. For comparison, 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.
A larger share of married residents than 99% of compared French towns: 54%
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
In the typical compared French town, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single; in Roches-lès-Blamont, 19%. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 68% 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
The census found that 29% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Roches-lès-Blamont. For adults with no qualification, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 19%.
The 11th oldest of 41 French towns of 612 to 2,582 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 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Of the 6 towns nearest Roches-lès-Blamont, 1 are older
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roches-lès-Blamont | 51.3 | 27% | 1.6% | 3% |
| Hérimoncourt 3,508 · 2.6 mi | 42.6 | 21% | 0.2% | 6.3% |
| Mandeure 4,612 · 3.1 mi | 45.6 | 24% | 0.9% | 7.7% |
| Seloncourt 5,854 · 3.7 mi | 48.5 | 26% | 0.3% | 6.2% |
| Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans 3,912 · 4 mi | 51.8 | 30% | 1.8% | 4.6% |
| Valentigney 10,501 · 4 mi | 43.2 | 23% | 1.7% | 17% |
| Audincourt 14,071 · 5 mi | 41 | 21% | 1.7% | 19% |
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 Roches-lès-Blamont
What is the population of Roches-lès-Blamont?
612 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (630).
How old are Roches-lès-Blamont’s residents?
The median age is 51.3, older than 87% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Roches-lès-Blamont?
5, with occasional dwellings: 1.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Roches-lès-Blamont?
INSEE counts 18 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (1.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Roches-lès-Blamont?
€28,660 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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