3.6% of households are single parents, below 99% of compared French towns
Against a figure of 11% in the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel comes in at 4.6%. This Loire town had 625 residents in 270 households at the 2023 census. 6.8% of homes are flats. At 8.8%, the share of households headed by a manual worker is lower than in 83% of compared French towns.
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.
What stands out about the people of Saint-Haon-le-Châtel
One home in 10 is a second home
The census counted 34 second homes and occasional dwellings in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel, 10% of its 340 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 97% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
10% of homes in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel are second homes
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
6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town, against 9.7% in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Of all households, 9% moved in during the last two years and 24% have stayed three decades or more. Lower than in 60% of compared French towns: 10% of households rent social housing (HLM).
Slower growth than 56% of compared French towns: Saint-Haon-le-Châtel changed by +3% since 2012
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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +5%, then −2% to 2023.
A median age of 46.3: Saint-Haon-le-Châtel is older than 65% 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
■ Saint-Haon-le-Châtel 46.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Here a quarter of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%. Higher than in just over half of compared French towns: 11% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
In Saint-Haon-le-Châtel, 30% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 75% 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
Couples with children make up 28%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. On average, 2.2 people share a household.
The median resident lives on €26,480 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.
At €26,480 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 56% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 38%, a higher share than 78% 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
Set against 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 15% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel. Measured more widely, 32% 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).
Saint-Haon-le-Châtel ranks below 84% of compared French towns on immigrants: 2.8%
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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Saint-Haon-le-Châtel has 2.6%. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Saint-Haon-le-Châtel ranks above 80% of compared French towns on married residents: 47%
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
A quarter of residents 15 and over are single, or about one in four. In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%.
Below 87% of compared French towns: 12% of adults out of school have no qualification
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 graduates of higher education is 30%; Saint-Haon-le-Châtel has 34%. Measured more widely, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 625 to 2,582 people: this is the 18th oldest
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).
Saint-Haon-le-Châtel is younger than 5 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Saint-Haon-le-Châtel
What is the population of Saint-Haon-le-Châtel?
625 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (605).
How old are Saint-Haon-le-Châtel’s residents?
The median age is 46.3, older than 65% of compared French towns. 25% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel?
34, with occasional dwellings: 10% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel?
INSEE counts 17 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.8% of residents, and 16 foreign nationals (2.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Haon-le-Châtel?
€26,480 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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