39% of households are couples with children, more than in 98% of compared French towns
Just over a fifth of households are headed by a manager or professional; in the typical compared French town the figure is 9.4%. Census day 2023: 1,704 residents and 640 households in Saméon. The share of households without a car stands at 3.9%. On households in social housing, Saméon sits lower than 97% of compared French towns: 1.9%.
Throughout this page, the Nord 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 Saméon
A town of families
39% of households are couples with children and 5.4% single parents with children; 18% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Many graduates
47% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 17% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, Saméon outgrew 70% of compared French towns: +10%
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 Nord town changed ±0% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +8% and the next six +2%.
A median age of 45.2: Saméon is older than 58% 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
■ Saméon 45.2. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Saméon has 9.8%. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 21%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
A smaller share of one-person households than 99% of compared French towns: 19%
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 Nord median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2.6 people on average. As a reference point, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. 5.4% of households are single parents, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns.
1.2% of homes are flats, below 99% 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
6.1% of households arrived within the last two years, while 26% have stayed 30 years or more. Empty homes are rarer here than in four fifths of compared French towns. What’s more, the share of second homes is 1%, against 2.1% in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €31,330 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.
At €31,330 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 89% of compared French towns.
9.5% of households are headed by a manual worker, below 79% of compared French towns
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 Saméon, 31% of households are headed by a retired person, beside 32% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 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).
Immigrants: 2.9%, a lower share than 83% 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 Saméon comes in at 1.4%. On average, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Nord has 4.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 83% 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.
Below 92% of compared French towns: 20% 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
By its share of married residents (50%), Saméon is above 92% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
In Saméon, 47% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, more than in 91% 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
Against a figure of 19% in the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification in Saméon comes in at 13%. To put it in context, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
21st highest median age among 41 French towns of 1,704 to 2,582
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.
Saméon is older than every town around it
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 Saméon
What is the population of Saméon?
1,704 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% more than in 2012 (1,547).
How old are Saméon’s residents?
The median age is 45.2, older than 58% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saméon?
7, with occasional dwellings: 1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saméon?
INSEE counts 49 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.9% of residents, and 24 foreign nationals (1.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saméon?
€31,330 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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