Ranspach is older than 90% of compared French towns: a median age of 52.3
The share of households headed by a manager or professional trails 91% of compared French towns: 4.3%. Census day 2023: 769 residents and 350 households in Ranspach. Just over one in ten homes are flats. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% 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.
What stands out about the people of Ranspach
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 77 second homes and occasional dwellings in Ranspach, 17% of its 460 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 85% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Ranspach had 842 residents at the 2012 census and 769 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Ranspach’s residents are under 52.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A larger share of second homes than 92% of compared French towns: 17%
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
Long tenure is the mark of 35% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 4.2% (under two years). Fewer households in social housing than in 96% of compared French towns: 2.3%. Elsewhere, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. With households without a car at 8.1%, Ranspach is behind 66% of compared French towns on that count.
Ranspach changed by −9% from 2012 to 2023, 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
In two steps, −3% to 2017 and −6% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +4% in Haut-Rhin.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.3%, a lower share than 91% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Ranspach 52.3. The median compared French town: 44.
29% of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 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: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 57% of compared French towns: 34%
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
Each household has 2.2 people on average. The comparison figure for one-person households is 35% in the typical compared French town. In Ranspach, just over a quarter of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town.
Half above, half below €26,840 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 Ranspach is €26,840 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 60% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 41% in Ranspach, more than in 86% 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
With households headed by a manual worker at 20%, Ranspach is ahead of 83% of compared French towns on that count. 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).
Ranspach sits below 80% of compared French towns for immigrants (3.2%)
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 figure for foreign nationals is 1.6% in Ranspach and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 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.
More married residents than 93% of compared French towns: 51%
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
Just over a fifth of residents 15 and over are single, against 25% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Ranspach sits below 82% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (21%)
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
Locally, 18% of adults out of school have no qualification. Against that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 769 to 2,582 people: this is the 8th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Ranspach is older than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranspach | 52.3 | 29% | 17% | 3.2% |
| Thann 7,762 · 7 mi | 45.6 | 24% | 2.6% | 9.7% |
| Masevaux-Niederbruck 3,594 · 7.7 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 2.7% | 4.9% |
| Vieux-Thann 2,866 · 7.8 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 0.6% | 10% |
| Buhl 3,100 · 8.8 mi | 44.6 | 20% | 1.4% | 8.7% |
| Cernay 12,057 · 9.5 mi | 43.1 | 21% | 0.7% | 11% |
| Guebwiller 11,243 · 9.5 mi | 44.7 | 22% | 3.9% | 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 Ranspach
What is the population of Ranspach?
769 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (842).
How old are Ranspach’s residents?
The median age is 52.3, older than 90% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ranspach?
77, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ranspach?
INSEE counts 24 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.2% of residents, and 12 foreign nationals (1.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ranspach?
€26,840 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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