In Riespach, 3.6% of households have no car, fewer than in 96% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Riespach was home to 653 people in 250 households. The census found that 7.9% of homes are flats in the town. Here 31% of households are couples with children, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%.
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 Riespach
Fewer residents than in 2012
Riespach had 710 residents at the 2012 census and 653 in 2023, down 8%: slower growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 95% of compared French towns: Riespach changed by −8% 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
Over those years, the median Haut-Rhin town changed +4% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −9%, then +2% to 2023.
Below 91% of compared French towns: 8.3% of residents are 15 to 24
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Riespach 48.8. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Riespach is 48.8, higher than in 78% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 11% of residents are 15 to 24. 22% of residents are 65 or over, or about one in five.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
A smaller share of one-person households than 95% of compared French towns: 24%
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
A household here holds 2.3 people on average. The benchmark for one-person households in the typical compared French town: 35%. Compared with other places, single-parent households are scarce here: 4.1%, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns.
9.7% of homes stand empty, more than in 77% 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
Set against 2.1% in the typical compared French town, 0.7% of homes are second homes in Riespach. For comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Turnover: 6.4% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 39% have lived in their home 30 years or more.
Standard of living at the median: €34,890 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.
Half of residents live in households above €34,890 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 96% of compared French towns.
41% of households are headed by a retired person, a share 86% of compared French towns don’t reach
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 manager or professional (6.1%), Riespach is below 75% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manual worker account for 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A smaller share of immigrants than 71% of compared French towns: 4.3%
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 Haut-Rhin has 10%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 71% of compared French towns. The census found that 2.3% of residents are foreign nationals in Riespach. Elsewhere, 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.
A higher share of married residents than 89% of compared French towns, at 49%
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 Riespach, 27% of residents 15 and over are single, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
23% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 74% 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
Against a figure of 19% in the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification in Riespach comes in at 23%. The wider picture: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 653 to 2,582 people: this is 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Riespach is younger than 1 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Riespach
What is the population of Riespach?
653 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% fewer than in 2012 (710).
How old are Riespach’s residents?
The median age is 48.8, older than 78% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Riespach?
2, with occasional dwellings: 0.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Riespach?
INSEE counts 28 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.3% of residents, and 15 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Riespach?
€34,890 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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