Couples with children: 44%, a higher share than 99% of compared French towns
32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 19% in Flavy-le-Meldeux. Households without a car: 4.9% of the total. On empty homes, Flavy-le-Meldeux sits lower than just over four fifths of compared French towns: 4.5%. This Oise town had 225 residents in 82 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Oise 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 Flavy-le-Meldeux
A town of families
44% of households are couples with children and 6.2% single parents with children; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A young town
Half of Flavy-le-Meldeux’s residents are under 37.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 24% are under 15 and 14% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
+4% since 2012: slower than 53% 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
Over those years, the median Oise town changed +2% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −1%, then +6% to 2023.
Half of Flavy-le-Meldeux is under 37.5, younger than 90% 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
■ Flavy-le-Meldeux 37.5. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over; in Flavy-le-Meldeux, 14%. Locally, 12% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Oise 51.7%, France 51.8%.
Only 25% of households are one person living alone in Flavy-le-Meldeux
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 Oise median and the France median
Living alone · share
The figure for single-parent households is 6.2% in Flavy-le-Meldeux and 10% in the typical compared French town. The average household has 2.7 people. The usual figure: 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Flavy-le-Meldeux sits below 99% of compared French towns for flats (1.1%)
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
2.4% of households moved in less than two years ago; 21% have been in their home 30 years or more. Few places have so few households in social housing: 4.9% here, fewer than in 87% of compared French towns. Nothing unusual on second homes: 2.3%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
€23,360 a year is the median standard of living here
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 €23,360 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 78% of compared French towns.
Flavy-le-Meldeux sits above 79% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (19%)
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
Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. 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).
1.3% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 98% 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.
With foreign nationals at 0.4%, Flavy-le-Meldeux is behind 99% of compared French towns on that count. In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Flavy-le-Meldeux: 50% of residents 15 and over are married, above 91% of compared French towns
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
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, 23% of residents 15 and over are single here. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Flavy-le-Meldeux ranks below 90% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 18%
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
The share of adults with no qualification is 30%, against 19% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (225 to 2,582 people), the 2nd youngest
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.
Flavy-le-Meldeux is younger 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 Flavy-le-Meldeux
What is the population of Flavy-le-Meldeux?
225 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (216).
How old are Flavy-le-Meldeux’s residents?
The median age is 37.5, younger than 90% of compared French towns. 28% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Flavy-le-Meldeux?
2, with occasional dwellings: 2.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Flavy-le-Meldeux?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.3% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (0.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Flavy-le-Meldeux?
€23,360 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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