A median age of 60.5: Chalancon is older than 98% of compared French towns
Couples with children are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Chalancon counted 59 residents and 35 households at the 2023 Census. For Chalancon, the census puts flats at 8.3%. Empty homes: 9.5% here and 6.7% in the typical compared French town.
Throughout this page, the Drôme 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 Chalancon
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 27 second homes and occasional dwellings in Chalancon, 39% of its 68 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 93% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Chalancon’s residents are under 60.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 42% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Chalancon ranks above 96% of compared French towns on second homes: 39%
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
Turnover: just over one in ten households moved in less than two years ago, and 31% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Against that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. With households without a car at 5.7%, Chalancon is behind 82% of compared French towns on that count.
Chalancon grew +9% from 2012 to 2023, ahead of 67% 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 years 2012 to 2017 brought −2%; 2017 to 2023, +11%. Over the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Drôme town +8%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of compared French towns, at 42%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Chalancon 60.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 1.7%, below 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.
More one-person households than 79% of compared French towns: 43%
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 Drôme median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 1.7 people share a household. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Chalancon sits above 90% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (43%)
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. The usual figure: 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. For Chalancon, the census puts households headed by a manual worker at 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Chalancon ranks above 71% of compared French towns on immigrants: 10%
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.
Foreign nationals make up 6.8%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. 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.
Only 29% of residents 15 and over are married in Chalancon
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
31% of residents 15 and over are single (typical compared French town: 25%). The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Chalancon: 39% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, above 77% 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
Adults with no qualification: 17%, below 63% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 59 to 2,582 people: this is the 4th 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).
Of the 3 towns nearest Chalancon, 1 are older
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 Chalancon
What is the population of Chalancon?
59 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (54).
How old are Chalancon’s residents?
The median age is 60.5, older than 98% of compared French towns. 8.5% are under 18 and 42% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chalancon?
27, with occasional dwellings: 39% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chalancon?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 10% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (6.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
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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