A larger share of couples with children than 99% of compared French towns: 41%
Flats: 0.9% here and 30% in the typical compared French town. Census figures put households in social housing at 1.2% in La Drenne. 2.8% of homes stand empty, fewer than in 96% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census La Drenne was home to 1,080 people in 400 households.
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 La Drenne
A town of families
41% of households are couples with children and 7% single parents with children; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
La Drenne had 895 residents at the 2012 census and 1,080 in 2023, up 21%: faster growth than in 91% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
La Drenne grew +21% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 91% 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 the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Oise town +2%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought +12%; 2017 to 2023, +8%.
La Drenne ranks below 90% of compared French towns on residents aged 65 and over: 15%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ La Drenne 39.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of La Drenne’s residents are under 39.1, younger than in 84% of compared French towns. Against that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in nine: just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Oise 51.7%, France 51.8%.
La Drenne sits below 98% of compared French towns for one-person households (22%)
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
7% of households are single parents, against 10% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 2.7 people.
Only 4.3% of households have no car in La Drenne
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
With second homes at 4.4%, La Drenne is ahead of 74% of compared French towns on that count. To put it in context, 11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town. Newcomers of less than two years account for nearly one in ten households, residents of 30 years or more for 20%.
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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €29,190 a year: higher than in 80% of compared French towns.
La Drenne ranks below 74% of compared French towns on households headed by a retired person: 28%
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
13% of households are headed by a manager or professional; in the typical compared French town the figure is 9.4%. On average, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Census figures put households headed by a manual worker at 15% in La Drenne.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
La Drenne sits below 70% of compared French towns for foreign nationals (2.6%)
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.
The figure for immigrants is 5.1% in La Drenne and 6.5% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share lower than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Oise has 7.4%. For comparison, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
Married residents make up 48% in La Drenne, more than in 85% 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
Where 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town, La Drenne has 23%. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
15% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 72% 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
Graduates of higher education are rarer here than in 52% of compared French towns. Against that, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
2nd lowest median age among 41 French towns of 1,080 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than La Drenne
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 La Drenne
What is the population of La Drenne?
1,080 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 21% more than in 2012 (895).
How old are La Drenne’s residents?
The median age is 39.1, younger than 84% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in La Drenne?
19, with occasional dwellings: 4.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in La Drenne?
INSEE counts 55 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.1% of residents, and 28 foreign nationals (2.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in La Drenne?
€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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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