Below 99% of compared French towns: 2.6% of households have no car
With households headed by a manager or professional at 25%, Écharcon is ahead of 94% of compared French towns on that count. At the 2023 Census, 708 people lived in the town, in 320 households. The census found that just over one in ten homes are flats in the town. On one-person households, Écharcon sits lower than 85% of compared French towns: 28%.
Throughout this page, the Essonne 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 Écharcon
Fewer residents than in 2012
Écharcon had 782 residents at the 2012 census and 708 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A −9% change since 2012: slower than 96% 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
Over those years, the median Essonne town changed +6% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +1%, then −10% to 2023.
Écharcon is older than 60% of compared French towns: a median age of 45.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Écharcon 45.5. The median compared French town: 44.
A fifth of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town. Locally, one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Essonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 11% in Écharcon, more than in 66% 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 Essonne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.3 people each. Compared with other places, couples with children are scarce here: 24%, fewer than in 56% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Écharcon sits below 97% of compared French towns for empty homes (2.7%)
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
Nearly a quarter of households have been in place 30 years or more; 8.7% moved in within the last two years. By way of comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. On second homes, 1.8% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
A typical living standard of €32,050 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 €32,050 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 91% of compared French towns.
Écharcon sits below 86% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (24%)
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
9.5% of households are headed by a manual worker, against 14% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 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).
Fewer foreign nationals than 74% of compared French towns: 2.4%
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 55% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Essonne has 13%. The wider picture: 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Across Écharcon, 5.9% 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.
A larger share of married residents than 72% of compared French towns: 46%
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 Écharcon, nearly a quarter of residents 15 and over are single, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
13% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 86% 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
Where 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, Écharcon has 40%. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
The 21st oldest of 41 French towns of 708 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.
No nearby town is as old as Écharcon
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 Écharcon
What is the population of Écharcon?
708 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (782).
How old are Écharcon’s residents?
The median age is 45.5, older than 60% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Écharcon?
6, with occasional dwellings: 1.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Écharcon?
INSEE counts 42 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.9% of residents, and 17 foreign nationals (2.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Écharcon?
€32,050 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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