Photo: travail personnel (own work) · CC BY-SA 3.0Younger than 76% of compared French towns: half of Jargeau is under 40.5
In Jargeau, 30% of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. Census day 2023: 4,610 residents and 2,010 households locally. The census found that 23% of homes are flats locally. Few places have as many empty homes: 8.5% here, more than in 69% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Loiret 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.
Since 2012, Jargeau has changed by +3%, slower than 58% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +6% in Loiret.
Only 19% of residents are 65 or over in Jargeau
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Jargeau 40.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 here. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 32%, a lower share than 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 Loiret median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 2.3 people share a household. One-person households: 35% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Single-parent households: 9.4%, near enough the figure in the typical compared French town.
Below 56% of compared French towns: 9.5% of households have no car
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: 10%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 17%. As a yardstick, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Second homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 1.8%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €26,550 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €26,550 a year: higher than in 56% of compared French towns. Some 13.0% of residents fall below the poverty line.
Jargeau sits above 51% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (33%)
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
Here, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. 9.4% of Jargeau’s households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 33% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 5.6% of Jargeau’s residents
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 Loiret has 9.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 58% of compared French towns. About one in 18: that is how common immigrants are in Jargeau (5.6%). The town sits close to the norm on foreign nationals: 4.2%, about the same as 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.
Only 42% of residents 15 and over are married in Jargeau
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
25% of residents 15 and over are single, or about one in four. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 68% of compared French towns: 16%
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, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in Jargeau, 34%. Across the comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 7th youngest 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.
Ages run from 38.5 in Biache-Saint-Vaast to 62.9 in La Tremblade.
No nearby town is as young as Jargeau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jargeau | 40.5 | 19% | 1.8% | 5.6% |
| Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel 3,065 · 0.8 mi | 43.4 | 22% | 3.4% | 9.8% |
| Donnery 2,873 · 3.4 mi | 44 | 20% | 2.8% | 3.7% |
| Mardié 3,078 · 3.7 mi | 41.9 | 19% | 1.3% | 5% |
| Sandillon 4,300 · 4.5 mi | 44.5 | 20% | 1.5% | 4.5% |
| Châteauneuf-sur-Loire 8,546 · 4.6 mi | 42.5 | 23% | 3.4% | 7.3% |
| Fay-aux-Loges 3,916 · 4.8 mi | 40.6 | 17% | 2.4% | 3.7% |
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 Jargeau
What is the population of Jargeau?
4,610 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (4,479).
How old are Jargeau’s residents?
The median age is 40.5, younger than 76% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Jargeau?
40, with occasional dwellings: 1.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Jargeau?
INSEE counts 260 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.6% of residents, and 190 foreign nationals (4.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Jargeau?
€26,550 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 13.0% 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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