Lentigny sits below 99% of compared French towns for households in social housing (0.5%)
7.5% of residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). The census found that 5.4% of homes are flats in Lentigny. Fewer households without a car than in 92% of compared French towns: 4.4%. This Loire town counted 1,794 residents and 760 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Loire 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.
From 2012 to 2023, Lentigny outgrew 71% of compared French towns: +10%
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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Loire town +3%.
A median age of 44.5: Lentigny is older than 53% 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
■ Lentigny 44.5. The median compared French town: 44.
In Lentigny, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
25% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 95% 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 Loire median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 2.4 people share a household. Typically, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, couples with children are common here: 28%, more than in 66% of compared French towns. Single-parent households are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 9.2%.
Lentigny ranks below 85% of compared French towns on empty homes: 4.2%
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
Households that moved in under two years ago: 8.9%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 29%. By way of comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. More second homes than in 52% of compared French towns: 2.2%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €27,460 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.
At €27,460 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 66% of compared French towns.
Lentigny ranks above 64% of compared French towns on households headed by a retired person: 35%
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
With households headed by a manager or professional at 7.1%, Lentigny is behind 66% of compared French towns on that count. Add to that, this Loire town has fewer households headed by a manual worker than 54% of compared French towns, at 13%. By way of comparison, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 87% of compared French towns: 2.4% of residents are immigrants
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 share of foreign nationals trails 93% of compared French towns: 1.1%. Typically, 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.
A lower share of single residents than 99% of compared French towns, at 16%
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 43% in the typical compared French town, 55% of residents 15 and over are married here. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Lentigny sits below 56% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (28%)
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 Lentigny, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,794 to 2,582 people), the 16th youngest
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).
Every neighbor is older than Lentigny
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 Lentigny
What is the population of Lentigny?
1,794 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% more than in 2012 (1,625).
How old are Lentigny’s residents?
The median age is 44.5, older than 53% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lentigny?
18, with occasional dwellings: 2.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lentigny?
INSEE counts 44 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Lentigny?
€27,460 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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