A lower share of flats than 99% of compared French towns, at 0.3%
The share of households without a car is 3.6%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Census day 2023: 512 residents and 230 households in Champnétery. For Champnétery, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 7.1%. Few places have so few single-parent households: 6.6% here, fewer than in 93% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Vienne 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 Champnétery
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 35 second homes and occasional dwellings in Champnétery, 12% of its 300 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 94% 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
Champnétery had 570 residents at the 2012 census and 512 in 2023, down 10%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 36 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.
A higher share of second homes than 89% of compared French towns, at 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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 7.4% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 31%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Second homes make up 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Against a figure of 6.7% in the typical compared French town, the share of empty homes in Champnétery comes in at 12%.
Slower than most: −10% since 2012, behind 97% 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 median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Haute-Vienne town +1%. The change was −4% from 2012 to 2017 and −7% from 2017 to 2023.
Half of Champnétery is over 47.8, older than 74% 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
■ Champnétery 47.8. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over; in Champnétery, 25%.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Vienne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 31%, a higher share than 81% of compared French towns
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-Vienne median and the France median
Living alone · share
The figure for one-person households is 32% in Champnétery and 35% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for couples with children in the typical compared French town: 25%. A household here holds 2.2 people on average.
The median resident lives on €24,940 a year per consumption unit
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 Champnétery’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €24,940 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 61% of compared French towns.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 2.2% of households are headed by a manager or professional
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
Households headed by a manual worker make up about one in seven here (15%). 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 33% in Champnétery.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Champnétery ranks below 94% of compared French towns on immigrants: 1.7%
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.
Here 0.8% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Haute-Vienne has 4.5%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 94% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 90% of compared French towns, at 20%
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
Married residents: 48% here and 43% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 75% of compared French towns: 23%
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
Adults with no qualification: a fifth of the total. The wider picture: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
15th highest median age among 41 French towns of 512 to 2,582
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).
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Champnétery
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champnétery | 47.8 | 25% | 12% | 1.7% |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat 4,366 · 3.8 mi | 53.7 | 34% | 4.5% | 5.3% |
| Saint-Just-le-Martel 2,606 · 9 mi | 46.3 | 20% | 3.8% | 2.7% |
| Saint-Priest-Taurion 2,901 · 9.5 mi | 45.6 | 24% | 4.3% | 4.2% |
| Ambazac 5,556 · 11.8 mi | 47.5 | 25% | 4.8% | 2.1% |
| Feytiat 6,176 · 12 mi | 49.4 | 27% | 1.4% | 4.2% |
| Le Palais-sur-Vienne 5,775 · 12.2 mi | 49.3 | 29% | 1.1% | 7.9% |
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 Champnétery
What is the population of Champnétery?
512 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% fewer than in 2012 (570).
How old are Champnétery’s residents?
The median age is 47.8, older than 74% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Champnétery?
35, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Champnétery?
INSEE counts 9 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (0.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Champnétery?
€24,940 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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