Households in social housing: 1.8%, a lower share than 97% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%; Rye has 3.6%. Fewer couples with children than in 84% of compared French towns: 17%. The 2023 Census counted 222 residents in 110 households. Flats: 5% of the total.
Throughout this page, the Jura 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 Rye
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 17 second homes and occasional dwellings in Rye, 12% of its 140 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Rye’s residents are under 51.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 33% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 11% 80 or older. Ages ↓
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
In the typical compared French town, 6.7% of homes stand empty; in Rye, 7.9%. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 13% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 29%.
Rye grew +8% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 62% 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 +2% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −4% in Jura.
Older than 88% of compared French towns: half of Rye is over 51.7
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Rye 51.7. The median compared French town: 44.
A third of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 9.9%.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Jura 52.0%, France 51.8%.
39% of households are one person living alone, more than in 66% 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 Jura median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 2 people. Fewer single-parent households than in 71% of compared French towns: 8.7%. One-person households make up 35% in the typical compared French town.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €25,150 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 midpoint of living standards here is €25,150 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 58% of compared French towns.
Below 91% of compared French towns: 4.3% 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
Against a figure of 32% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person in Rye comes in at 35%. Still, 13% of households are headed by a manual worker, a lower share than in 56% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 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).
A lower share of immigrants than 60% of compared French towns, at 5.4%
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.
The median compared commune in Jura has 7.6%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in three fifths of compared French towns. Against that, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. For Rye, the census puts foreign nationals at 4.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Rye ranks above 93% of compared French towns on married residents: 51%
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
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of residents 15 and over are single here. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
In Rye, 17% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 93% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%; Rye has 22%. The share of graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town is 30%.
Ranked by age, 10th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Rye 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 Rye
What is the population of Rye?
222 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% more than in 2012 (206).
How old are Rye’s residents?
The median age is 51.7, older than 88% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 33% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rye?
17, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rye?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.4% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (4.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rye?
€25,150 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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