Couples with children: 52%, a higher share than 99% of compared French towns
With flats at 4.6%, Thonne-la-Long is behind 96% of compared French towns on that count. This Meuse town had 362 residents in 130 households at the 2023 census. Households headed by a retired person account for 18%. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 6%, more than in four fifths of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Meuse 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 Thonne-la-Long
Immigrants
INSEE counts 200 immigrants in Thonne-la-Long (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 64% of residents, against 7.3% for the median compared commune in Meuse. 60% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
A town of families
52% of households are couples with children and 3.7% single parents with children; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
Thonne-la-Long had 276 residents at the 2012 census and 362 in 2023, up 31%: faster growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A young town
Half of Thonne-la-Long’s residents are under 36.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 24% are under 15 and 7.5% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A growing town: +31% since 2012, faster than 97% 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
In two steps, +21% to 2017 and +9% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −8% in Meuse.
Half of Thonne-la-Long is under 36.3, younger than 93% 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
■ Thonne-la-Long 36.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Where 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Thonne-la-Long has 8.4%. Residents aged 65 and over: 7.5% of the total.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Meuse 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Only 18% of households are one person living alone in Thonne-la-Long
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 Meuse median and the France median
Living alone · share
The figure for single-parent households is 3.7% in Thonne-la-Long and 10% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are one person living alone. Each household has 2.7 people on average.
A lower share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns, at 2.2%
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
Little separates the share of empty homes here, 6%, from the figure in the typical compared French town. Households that moved in under two years ago: 7.5%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 9.7%. In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €31,840 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 midpoint of living standards here is €31,840 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 91% of compared French towns.
41% of households are headed by a manual worker, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
In the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional; in Thonne-la-Long, 19%. The usual figure: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Thonne-la-Long, 64% of residents are immigrants, more than in 99% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Thonne-la-Long comes in at 60%. Immigrants make up 6.5% 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.
Below 88% of compared French towns: 21% of residents 15 and over are single
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
45% of residents 15 and over are married and 7.8% in a PACS, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 2.6% are widowed. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification make up 10% in Thonne-la-Long, less than in 96% 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
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, 28% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification here. As a yardstick, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The youngest of 41 French towns of 362 to 2,582 people
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 Thonne-la-Long (36.3), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
No nearby town is as young as Thonne-la-Long
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 Thonne-la-Long
What is the population of Thonne-la-Long?
362 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 31% more than in 2012 (276).
How old are Thonne-la-Long’s residents?
The median age is 36.3, younger than 93% of compared French towns. 30% are under 18 and 7.5% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Thonne-la-Long?
9, with occasional dwellings: 6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Thonne-la-Long?
INSEE counts 230 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 64% of residents, and 220 foreign nationals (60%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Thonne-la-Long?
€31,840 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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