Only 4.9% of households have no car in Laveyron
Residents aged 65 and over: 18%, below 76% of compared French towns. In Laveyron, 22% of households are headed by a manual worker. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 17%, fewer than in nearly three quarters of compared French towns. The town’s 510 households held 1,253 residents at the 2023 Census.
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 Laveyron
Growing fast
Laveyron had 1,001 residents at the 2012 census and 1,253 in 2023, up 25%: faster growth than in 94% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +25% change since 2012: faster than 94% 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 Drôme town changed +8% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +19% and the next six +6%.
Younger than 80% of compared French towns: half of Laveyron is under 39.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Laveyron 39.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up about one in ten here (10%).
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 31%, a higher share than 80% 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 Drôme median and the France median
Living alone · share
By its share of one-person households (29%), Laveyron is below four fifths of compared French towns. On average, 2.4 people share a household. Lower than in 55% of compared French towns: 9.7% of households are single parents. Couples with children make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Laveyron: 15% of households rent social housing (HLM), above 61% of compared French towns
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
Nearly one in ten households arrived within the last two years, while 24% have stayed 30 years or more. Few places have as many second homes: 2.5% here, more than in 55% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM). Little separates the share of empty homes here, 6.6%, from the figure in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €24,360 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.
Half of Laveyron’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €24,360 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
Only 7.8% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Laveyron
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
By its share of households headed by a retired person (34%), Laveyron is above nearly three fifths of compared French towns. On average, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
More immigrants than 59% of compared French towns: 7.7%
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: 4.7% of the total. Immigrants make up 6.5% 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 83% of compared French towns: 48%
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
By its share of single residents (23%), Laveyron is below 71% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
Below 88% of compared French towns: 19% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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 share of adults with no qualification is 25%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
2nd lowest median age among 41 French towns of 1,253 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.
5 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Laveyron
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laveyron | 39.9 | 18% | 2.5% | 7.7% |
| Saint-Vallier 4,027 · 1.6 mi | 45.2 | 25% | 2.5% | 13% |
| Vernosc-lès-Annonay 2,725 · 5 mi | 45.1 | 21% | 1.1% | 2.6% |
| Anneyron 4,169 · 5.8 mi | 46 | 24% | 2.6% | 2.3% |
| Saint-Rambert-d'Albon 7,001 · 6 mi | 39.2 | 18% | 1% | 16% |
| Davézieux 3,205 · 6.6 mi | 54.7 | 35% | 1.3% | 4.4% |
| Chanas 2,706 · 7.6 mi | 40.6 | 18% | 3% | 11% |
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 Laveyron
What is the population of Laveyron?
1,253 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 25% more than in 2012 (1,001).
How old are Laveyron’s residents?
The median age is 39.9, younger than 80% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Laveyron?
14, with occasional dwellings: 2.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Laveyron?
INSEE counts 97 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.7% of residents, and 59 foreign nationals (4.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Laveyron?
€24,360 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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