A median age of 66.5: Chaumard is older than 99% of compared French towns
Set against 32% in the typical compared French town, 50% of households are headed by a retired person in Chaumard. Couples with children make up about one in 24 here (4.1%). Compared with other places, households without a car are scarce here: 5.3%, fewer than in 86% of compared French towns. The town counted 192 residents and 120 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Nièvre 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 Chaumard
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 280 second homes and occasional dwellings in Chaumard, 67% of its 420 homes: higher than in 99% 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 ↓
An older town
Half of Chaumard’s residents are under 66.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 53% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 13% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Chaumard had 210 residents at the 2012 census and 192 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 0 immigrants in Chaumard (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 15% of residents, against 5.9% for the median compared commune in Nièvre. 15% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Chaumard sits above 99% of compared French towns for second homes (67%)
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
5% of homes stand empty; in the typical compared French town the figure is 6.7%. As a yardstick, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. For Chaumard, the census puts flats at 2.9%.
Chaumard changed by −9% from 2012 to 2023, behind 96% 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 −1%, then −8% to 2023.
Chaumard: 53% of residents are 65 or over, above 99% 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
■ Chaumard 66.5. The median compared French town: 44.
2.9% of residents are 15 to 24; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nièvre 53.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
One-person households make up 47% in Chaumard, more than in 88% 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 Nièvre median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households: 8.9% here and 10% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
A median of €25,230 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.
Half of Chaumard’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,230 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 57% of compared French towns.
Below 82% of compared French towns: 9.2% 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
Put another way, about one in 11: nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional. 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).
A larger share of immigrants than 86% of compared French towns: 15%
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, Chaumard has 15%. As a yardstick, 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.
Chaumard sits below 99% of compared French towns for single residents (17%)
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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 53% in Chaumard. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 63% of compared French towns: 26%
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 19% in the typical compared French town, 17% of adults out of school have no qualification here. Set beside that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 192 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 66.5 in Chaumard.
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 Chaumard
What is the population of Chaumard?
192 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (210).
How old are Chaumard’s residents?
The median age is 66.5, older than 99% of compared French towns. 6.6% are under 18 and 53% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chaumard?
280, with occasional dwellings: 67% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chaumard?
INSEE counts 30 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 15% of residents, and 29 foreign nationals (15%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chaumard?
€25,230 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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