Photo: A.BourgeoisP · CC BY-SA 4.0More households headed by a manual worker than 97% of compared French towns: 25%
Half of Ronchamp’s residents are over 46.6, older than in 67% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 2,737 people lived here, in 1,230 households. The census found that 6.9% of households rent social housing (HLM) here. The share of flats is 21%, against 30% in the typical compared French town.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Saône 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 Ronchamp
Fewer residents than in 2012
Ronchamp had 2,930 residents at the 2012 census and 2,737 in 2023, down 7%: slower growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 170 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Ronchamp changed by −7% from 2012 to 2023, behind 92% 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, −6% to 2017 and −1% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −5% in Haute-Saône.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 69% of compared French towns: 25%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Ronchamp 46.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 11% in Ronchamp. Across the comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Saône 51.4%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of one-person households than 60% of compared French towns, at 38%
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-Saône median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. The share of one-person households in the typical compared French town is 35%. Compared with other places, single-parent households are scarce here: 9.4%, fewer than in 60% of compared French towns. The figure for couples with children is 26% in Ronchamp and 25% in the typical compared French town.
Ronchamp ranks above 86% of compared French towns on empty homes: 12%
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
Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 10% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 27%. Across the comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. More second homes than in just over three fifths of compared French towns: 2.9%. Car-free households: one in eight, where the median compared French town has 11%.
At the median, €22,560 a year to live on
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 midpoint of living standards here is €22,560 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 85% of compared French towns. One measure of hardship: 19.0% of residents are below the poverty line.
4.9% of households are headed by a manager or professional, below 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
In Ronchamp, 37% of households are headed by a retired person, beside 32% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 3.4% of residents are immigrants in Ronchamp
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.
Foreign nationals: 1.7%, below 84% of compared French towns. The median compared commune in Haute-Saône has 8.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 79% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 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.
Married residents make up 41% in Ronchamp, less than in 65% 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
Single residents make up 27%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Ronchamp ranks below 93% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 17%
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
30% of adults out of school have no qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 19%.
18th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 2,706 to 2,769
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 Trieux (37.7), the youngest, and Collioure (60.8), the oldest.
A younger town than 1 of the 6 around it: Ronchamp
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 Ronchamp
What is the population of Ronchamp?
2,737 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% fewer than in 2012 (2,930).
How old are Ronchamp’s residents?
The median age is 46.6, older than 67% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ronchamp?
42, with occasional dwellings: 2.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ronchamp?
INSEE counts 92 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.4% of residents, and 46 foreign nationals (1.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ronchamp?
€22,560 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 19.0% 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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