Rives: 60% of homes are flats, above 84% of compared French towns
Nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 29% in Rives. Here, 18% of households rent social housing (HLM). Compared with other places, empty homes are common here: 8.9%, more than in 72% of compared French towns. This Isère town had 6,549 residents in 3,080 households at the 2023 census.
Throughout this page, the Isère 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.
A +8% change since 2012: faster than 64% 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 Isère town +7%.
Rives is younger than 59% of compared French towns: a median age of 42.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Rives 42.9. The median compared French town: 44.
11% of residents are 15 to 24, more than in 51% of compared French towns. On the census count, 22% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Isère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
In Rives, 40% of households are one person living alone, more than in 70% 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 Isère median and the France median
Living alone · share
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, 23% of households are couples with children here. Against that, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.1 people. Fewer single-parent households than in 55% of compared French towns: 9.7%.
Only 9% of households have no car in Rives
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
In the last two years, 14% of households moved in; at the other end, 16% have stayed 30 years or more. Households without a car: 11% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. At 1.7%, the share of second homes is lower than in nearly three fifths of compared French towns.
€25,610 a year: the median standard of living
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.
Living standards centre on €25,610 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 53% of compared French towns. 12.0% of residents have a standard of living below 60% of France’s median.
20% of households are headed by a manual worker, a share 83% 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
Put another way, about one in ten: one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional. The comparison figure for households headed by a manual worker is 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Rives ranks above 69% of compared French towns on immigrants: 9.6%
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 6.5% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
39% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 74% 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
Locally, 25% of residents 15 and over are single. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
A larger share of adults with no qualification than 74% of compared French towns: 24%
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 hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, against 28% in Rives. The usual figure: 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
16th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 6,502 to 6,593
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Chasse-sur-Rhône is the youngest (36.3); Gueugnon the oldest (58).
Median age: 4 of the 6 towns around Rives are older
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 Rives
What is the population of Rives?
6,549 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% more than in 2012 (6,045).
How old are Rives’ residents?
The median age is 42.9, younger than 59% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rives?
57, with occasional dwellings: 1.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rives?
INSEE counts 630 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 9.6% of residents, and 430 foreign nationals (6.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rives?
€25,610 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 12.0% 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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