Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.7% of homes are flats
2.8% of households have no car, against 11% in the typical compared French town. At the 2023 Census Vivans was home to 242 people in 110 households. The share of households headed by a retired person stands at 42%. With a median age of 47.8, Vivans is older than 73% 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 Vivans
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 27 second homes and occasional dwellings in Vivans, 18% of its 150 homes: higher than in 92% 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 ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 18%, a higher share than 92% of compared French towns
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 in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. One in ten homes stand empty, or about one in ten.
+1% since 2012: slower than 66% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −4%, then +5% to 2023.
In Vivans, 8.6% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 87% 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
■ Vivans 47.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Across Vivans, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. On average, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of couples with children than 79% of compared French towns: 31%
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
One-person households make up 33%, against 35% in the typical compared French town. Couples with children: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. The average household has 2.2 people. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
The median resident lives on €24,330 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €24,330 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 68% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a manual worker than 98% of compared French towns: 26%
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
Lower than in 50% of compared French towns: 9.4% of 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).
2% of residents are immigrants, below 92% of compared French towns
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 80% of compared French towns: 2%. In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%. The median compared commune in Loire has 5.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 92% 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 smaller share of single residents than 65% of compared French towns: 24%
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
Census figures put married residents at 43% in Vivans. Across the comparison, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
23% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 73% 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
19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town, against 15% in Vivans. On average, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 242 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Around Vivans, 5 of 6 towns have a higher median age
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 Vivans
What is the population of Vivans?
242 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (240).
How old are Vivans’ residents?
The median age is 47.8, older than 73% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Vivans?
27, with occasional dwellings: 18% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Vivans?
INSEE counts 5 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2% of residents, and 5 foreign nationals (2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Vivans?
€24,330 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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