Chalindrey sits below 99% of compared French towns for households headed by a manager or professional (2.5%)
Where 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Chalindrey has 44%. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 2,353, in 1,230 households. Empty homes: a tenth of the total. The town has more households in social housing than 77% of compared French towns, at 20%.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Marne 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 Chalindrey
Fewer residents than in 2012
Chalindrey had 2,503 residents at the 2012 census and 2,353 in 2023, down 6%: slower growth than in 91% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Chalindrey’s residents are under 51.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 28% 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.
Chalindrey changed by −6% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 91% 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
The change was −4% from 2012 to 2017 and −2% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Haute-Marne town −9%.
Half of Chalindrey is over 51.3, older than 87% 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
■ Chalindrey 51.3. The median compared French town: 44.
One in ten residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Chalindrey has more residents aged 65 and over than four fifths of compared French towns, at 28%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Marne 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Fewer couples with children than 82% of compared French towns: 18%
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 Haute-Marne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 1.9 people. In the typical compared French town, a quarter of households are couples with children. The share of single-parent households is 11%, against 10% in the typical compared French town.
A town of second homes: 3.5% of its homes
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
The share of households without a car tops 62% of compared French towns: 13%. Flats make up about one in four here (27%). As a yardstick, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
Standard of living at the median: €23,470 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.
The median standard of living in Chalindrey is €23,470 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 77% of compared French towns. 16.0% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Chalindrey: 44% of households are headed by a retired person, above 91% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%; Chalindrey has 22%. 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).
Immigrants: 2.5%, a lower share than 87% of compared French towns
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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 1.5% of residents are foreign nationals here. 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.
Chalindrey sits below 63% of compared French towns for married residents (41%)
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
Put another way, about one in four: a quarter of residents 15 and over are single. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Chalindrey sits below 99% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (13%)
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
By its share of adults with no qualification (23%), Chalindrey is above 70% of compared French towns. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 11th 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.
Chalindrey is older than every town around it
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 Chalindrey
What is the population of Chalindrey?
2,353 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% fewer than in 2012 (2,503).
How old are Chalindrey’s residents?
The median age is 51.3, older than 87% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chalindrey?
50, with occasional dwellings: 3.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chalindrey?
INSEE counts 58 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.5% of residents, and 36 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chalindrey?
€23,470 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 16.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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