Ligny-le-Ribault sits below 96% of compared French towns for flats (4.6%)
Compared with 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 18% of households are headed by a manager or professional here. Locally, 5.3% of households rent social housing (HLM). 5.1% of households have no car, a lower share than in 87% of compared French towns. There were 570 households in Ligny-le-Ribault at the 2023 Census, home to 1,252 residents.
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.
What stands out about the people of Ligny-le-Ribault
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 87 second homes and occasional dwellings in Ligny-le-Ribault, 12% of its 730 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 ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Ligny-le-Ribault: 12% of homes are second homes, above 89% 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
Set against 6.7% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten homes stand empty in Ligny-le-Ribault. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. 23% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 9.8% moved in within the last two years.
Slower growth than 82% of compared French towns: Ligny-le-Ribault 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
The median Loiret town changed +6% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −5% and the next six +1%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 92% of compared French towns: 8.2%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Ligny-le-Ribault 48. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of Ligny-le-Ribault’s residents are over 48, older than in 74% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. The census found that a quarter of residents are 65 or over here.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
31% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 71% 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
Households here average 2.2 people each. The comparison figure for one-person households is 35% in the typical compared French town. Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, nearly a quarter of households are couples with children here.
Median living standard: €29,190 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 median standard of living in Ligny-le-Ribault is €29,190 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 80% of compared French towns.
Below 56% of compared French towns: 13% of households are headed by a manual worker
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
Across Ligny-le-Ribault, a third of households are headed by a retired person. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 2.7% in Ligny-le-Ribault, less than in 85% 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.
Here 1.7% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. Measured more widely, 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.
Ligny-le-Ribault sits below 97% of compared French towns for single residents (19%)
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
The share of married residents is 50%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Ligny-le-Ribault ranks below 74% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 15%
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
With graduates of higher education at 37%, Ligny-le-Ribault is ahead of 72% of compared French towns on that count. In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%.
Ranked by age, 15th 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).
No nearby town is as old as Ligny-le-Ribault
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ligny-le-Ribault | 48 | 25% | 12% | 2.7% |
| Lailly-en-Val 3,101 · 6.9 mi | 41.9 | 20% | 4.4% | 3.6% |
| La Ferté-Saint-Aubin 7,284 · 7.6 mi | 44.2 | 22% | 3.5% | 4.2% |
| Saint-Laurent-Nouan 4,236 · 8.7 mi | 44.2 | 21% | 5.8% | 2.5% |
| Cléry-Saint-André 3,596 · 9.6 mi | 43 | 20% | 7.3% | 4.1% |
| Beaugency 8,024 · 9.7 mi | 43.9 | 24% | 5.1% | 11% |
| Meung-sur-Loire 6,670 · 10.7 mi | 43.4 | 23% | 4.9% | 7.4% |
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 Ligny-le-Ribault
What is the population of Ligny-le-Ribault?
1,252 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,295).
How old are Ligny-le-Ribault’s residents?
The median age is 48, older than 74% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ligny-le-Ribault?
87, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ligny-le-Ribault?
INSEE counts 34 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.7% of residents, and 21 foreign nationals (1.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ligny-le-Ribault?
€29,190 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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