Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of compared French towns: 6.4%
One-person households make up 26%, against 35% in the typical compared French town. Census day 2023: 196 residents and 93 households in Lecey. Here, 5.3% of homes are second homes. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
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 Lecey
Fewer residents than in 2012
Lecey had 219 residents at the 2012 census and 196 in 2023, down 11%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Lecey’s residents are under 52 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 35% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 97% of compared French towns: Lecey changed by −11% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Haute-Marne town −9%. The first five years brought −4%; the six to 2023, −7%.
Half of Lecey is over 52, older than 89% 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
■ Lecey 52. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 35%, against 22% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Marne 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Lecey ranks above 56% of compared French towns on couples with children: 26%
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
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. The average household has 2.1 people.
Fewer households without a car than 64% of compared French towns: 8.3%
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
Set against 6.7% in the typical compared French town, 8.5% of homes stand empty in Lecey. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. For comparison, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €26,140 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 €26,140 a year: higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
In Lecey, 47% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 95% 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
Just over a quarter of households are headed by a manual worker; in the typical compared French town the figure is 14%. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person is 32%. Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 1.5% in Lecey, less than in 97% 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.
In the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals is 4.3%; Lecey has 1.5%. The median compared commune in Haute-Marne has 7.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 97% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 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.
17% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer 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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, 50% of residents 15 and over are married in Lecey. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Graduates of higher education make up 20% in Lecey, less than in 85% 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
19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town, against 21% in Lecey. The wider picture: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 9th oldest of 41 French towns of 196 to 2,582 people
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 Lecey
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 Lecey
What is the population of Lecey?
196 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% fewer than in 2012 (219).
How old are Lecey’s residents?
The median age is 52, older than 89% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 35% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lecey?
6, with occasional dwellings: 5.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lecey?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Lecey?
€26,140 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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