Fewer households in social housing than 99% of compared French towns: 0.4%
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%; Orvillers-Sorel has 27%. Put another way, about one in 53: 1.9% of homes are flats. 4.3% of households have no car, fewer than in 92% of compared French towns. The town had 513 residents in 230 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 Orvillers-Sorel
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 29 second homes and occasional dwellings in Orvillers-Sorel, 11% of its 280 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 59% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More second homes than 88% of compared French towns: 11%
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
Newcomers of less than two years account for just over one in ten households, residents of 30 years or more for 22%. 5.5% of homes stand empty, a lower share than in 68% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
Slower growth than 53% of compared French towns: Orvillers-Sorel changed by +4% since 2012
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 same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Oise town +2%.
Orvillers-Sorel ranks below 86% of compared French towns on residents aged 65 and over: 16%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Orvillers-Sorel 46.2. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 46.2, Orvillers-Sorel is older than nearly two thirds of compared French towns. For Orvillers-Sorel, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 9.7%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Oise 51.7%, France 51.8%.
Orvillers-Sorel sits below 99% of compared French towns for single-parent households (4.4%)
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 share of one-person households is 31%, against 35% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. On average, 2.2 people share a household. Couples with children are more common here than in just over four fifths of compared French towns.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €27,340 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.
Living standards centre on €27,340 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 64% of compared French towns.
In Orvillers-Sorel, 5.9% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 77% 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
Here 30% of households are headed by a retired person, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 32%. The comparison figure for households headed by a manager or professional is 9.4% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.6% of residents are immigrants in Orvillers-Sorel
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 96% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Oise has 7.4%. Locally, 0.6% of residents are foreign nationals. Set beside that, 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.
A lower share of single residents than 90% of compared French towns, at 20%
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
Married residents: 44% of the total. As a reference point, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 92% of compared French towns: 18% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
With adults with no qualification at 24%, Orvillers-Sorel is ahead of 74% of compared French towns on that count. For graduates of higher education, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
18th highest median age among 41 French towns of 513 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Orvillers-Sorel is younger than 2 of its 6 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orvillers-Sorel | 46.2 | 16% | 11% | 1.6% |
| Montdidier 5,935 · 7.7 mi | 46.3 | 25% | 1.8% | 2.3% |
| Roye 5,833 · 9.2 mi | 42.8 | 22% | 2.1% | 3.7% |
| Thourotte 4,463 · 10.2 mi | 47.2 | 27% | 0.8% | 6.8% |
| Longueil-Annel 2,586 · 10.4 mi | 42 | 20% | 1% | 6.6% |
| Ribécourt-Dreslincourt 3,871 · 10.5 mi | 40.5 | 18% | 1.2% | 7.3% |
| Estrées-Saint-Denis 3,664 · 10.8 mi | 44.4 | 22% | 1.2% | 4.1% |
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 Orvillers-Sorel
What is the population of Orvillers-Sorel?
513 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (493).
How old are Orvillers-Sorel’s residents?
The median age is 46.2, older than 65% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Orvillers-Sorel?
29, with occasional dwellings: 11% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Orvillers-Sorel?
INSEE counts 8 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.6% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (0.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Orvillers-Sorel?
€27,340 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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