Richarville sits below 99% of compared French towns for households without a car (1.9%)
In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%; Richarville has 20%. Here, just over a quarter of households are headed by a manager or professional. With a median age of 48.6, Richarville is older than 78% of compared French towns. The town’s 160 households held 386 residents at the 2023 Census.
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 Richarville
One home in 10 is a second home
The census counted 18 second homes and occasional dwellings in Richarville, 10% of its 180 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 94% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Richarville ranks below 98% of compared French towns on empty homes: 2.3%
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
Flats 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. One in ten homes are second homes, or about one in ten.
Slower growth than 83% of compared French towns: Richarville changed by −4% since 2012
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 Essonne town changed +6% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −1% and the next six −3%.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 89% of compared French towns: 8.4%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Richarville 48.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 26% of residents are 65 or over in Richarville. To put it in context, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Essonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
More single-parent households than 97% of compared French towns: 16%
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
With couples with children at 28%, Richarville is ahead of 64% of compared French towns on that count. The comparison figure for single-parent households is 10% in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.4 people.
Median living standard: €32,090 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €32,090 a year: higher than in 91% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 2.8%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
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 retired person make up 30%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 65% of compared French towns: 4.8% of residents are immigrants
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 are rarer here than in 53% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 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.
Married residents make up 55% in Richarville, more than in 99% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%; Richarville has 19%. Measured more widely, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Richarville: 41% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, above 81% 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
15% of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). The share of graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town is 30%.
Ranked by age, 15th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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 Richarville
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richarville | 48.6 | 26% | 10% | 4.8% |
| Dourdan 11,415 · 4 mi | 40.6 | 18% | 2.2% | 15% |
| Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines 5,875 · 7.5 mi | 45.8 | 23% | 2.5% | 8.6% |
| Étampes 26,857 · 7.6 mi | 36 | 14% | 0.7% | 22% |
| Saint-Chéron 5,132 · 7.9 mi | 41.6 | 18% | 13% | 9.8% |
| Ablis 3,913 · 7.9 mi | 37.9 | 13% | 2.1% | 10% |
| Étréchy 6,986 · 8.7 mi | 43.8 | 23% | 1.6% | 8.5% |
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 Richarville
What is the population of Richarville?
386 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (400).
How old are Richarville’s residents?
The median age is 48.6, older than 78% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Richarville?
18, with occasional dwellings: 10% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Richarville?
INSEE counts 19 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.8% of residents, and 15 foreign nationals (4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Richarville?
€32,090 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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