Sainte-Jalle ranks above 95% of compared French towns on second homes: 32%
With a median age of 48.6, Sainte-Jalle is older than 77% of compared French towns. Here, 3% of households are headed by a manager or professional. There were 170 households here at the 2023 Census, home to 330 residents. Households in social housing: 1.8% here and 12% 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 Sainte-Jalle
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 94 second homes and occasional dwellings in Sainte-Jalle, 32% of its 290 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 87% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Growing fast
Sainte-Jalle had 280 residents at the 2012 census and 330 in 2023, up 18%: faster growth than in 87% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Households without a car make up 4.8% in Sainte-Jalle, less than in 89% 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
Empty homes: 11% here and 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Sainte-Jalle has fewer flats than just over four fifths of compared French towns, at 13%. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 10% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 16%.
Since 2012, Sainte-Jalle has grown +18%, faster than 87% 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 change was +10%; from 2017 to 2023, +7%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Drôme town +8%.
Sainte-Jalle ranks below 88% of compared French towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 8.5%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Sainte-Jalle 48.6. The median compared French town: 44.
In Sainte-Jalle, a quarter of residents are 65 or over, beside 22% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Drôme 51.8%, France 51.8%.
Sainte-Jalle ranks below 99% of compared French towns on single-parent households: 3%
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 (45%), Sainte-Jalle is above 85% of compared French towns. Households here average 2 people each. As a reference point, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Half above, half below €19,600 a year in standard of living
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 median standard of living in Sainte-Jalle is €19,600 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 97% of compared French towns.
Sainte-Jalle sits above 89% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (42%)
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 manual worker (12%), Sainte-Jalle is below 63% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 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).
More foreign nationals than 64% of compared French towns: 6.1%
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.
The median compared commune in Drôme has 6.5%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 54% of compared French towns. Against that, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in 16: 6.1% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Sainte-Jalle: 28% of residents 15 and over are single, above 70% 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
Locally, 43% of residents 15 and over are married. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
Sainte-Jalle ranks below 87% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 12%
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
34% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. As a yardstick, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (330 to 2,582 people), the 15th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
No nearby town is as young as Sainte-Jalle
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 Sainte-Jalle
What is the population of Sainte-Jalle?
330 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 18% more than in 2012 (280).
How old are Sainte-Jalle’s residents?
The median age is 48.6, older than 77% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Sainte-Jalle?
94, with occasional dwellings: 32% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Sainte-Jalle?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.1% of residents, and 20 foreign nationals (6.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Sainte-Jalle?
€19,600 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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