Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.9% of households have no car
Nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone; in the typical compared French town the figure is 35%. The 2023 Census put Kappelen’s population at 573, in 250 households. For Kappelen, the census puts flats at 14%. Households headed by a manager or professional are more common here than in 93% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Haut-Rhin 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.
Kappelen changed by +4% from 2012 to 2023, behind 54% 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 population moved +6%, and from 2017 to 2023 −2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Haut-Rhin town +4%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 97% of compared French towns: 6.9%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Kappelen 46.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of Kappelen’s residents are over 46.5, older than in 66% of compared French towns. On the census count, 20% of residents are 65 or over. As a reference point, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
In Kappelen, 4% of households are single parents, fewer than in 99% 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 Haut-Rhin median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.3 people each. Few places have as many couples with children: 30% here, more than in three quarters of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Kappelen sits below 89% of compared French towns for empty homes (3.8%)
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Against that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 4.5% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 35%. Kappelen sits close to the norm on second homes: 1.5%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €43,910 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 €43,910 a year: higher than in 99% of compared French towns.
Kappelen sits below 77% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (27%)
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
Against a figure of 14% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker in Kappelen comes in at 12%. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% 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 63% of compared French towns: 5.9%
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.
That is higher than in 57% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Haut-Rhin has 10%. Foreign nationals: 4.3% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Here, 7.5% 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 higher share of married residents than 99% of compared French towns, at 58%
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 Kappelen, 16% of residents 15 and over are single, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. For married residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Adults with no qualification make up 14% in Kappelen, less than in 78% 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
A third of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. As a reference point, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 573 to 2,582 people, the 18th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
1 of 6 neighbors are older than Kappelen
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 Kappelen
What is the population of Kappelen?
573 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (552).
How old are Kappelen’s residents?
The median age is 46.5, older than 66% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Kappelen?
4, with occasional dwellings: 1.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Kappelen?
INSEE counts 43 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.5% of residents, and 34 foreign nationals (5.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Kappelen?
€43,910 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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