Photo: Charles Emmanuel Joseph Roussel · Public domainA smaller share of flats than 94% of compared French towns: 6%
Against a figure of 32% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person in Rang-du-Fliers comes in at 41%. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 7.5%, more than in 84% of compared French towns. The town had 4,297 residents in 1,880 households at the 2023 census. Here, 8% of households rent social housing (HLM).
Throughout this page, the Pas-de-Calais 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 Rang-du-Fliers
Empty homes
The census found 270 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, 53% of compared French towns grew faster than Rang-du-Fliers: +4%
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 Pas-de-Calais town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%.
Rang-du-Fliers is older than 81% of compared French towns: a median age of 49.3
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Rang-du-Fliers 49.3. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 22%; Rang-du-Fliers has 27%. Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 72% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Below 85% of compared French towns: 7.5% of households are single parents
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 Pas-de-Calais median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 2.3 people share a household. Set beside that, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Rang-du-Fliers has fewer one-person households than 76% of compared French towns, at 30%. Still, in Rang-du-Fliers, 28% of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town.
Empty homes make up 12% in Rang-du-Fliers, more than in 86% 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
Households without a car make up 7.7%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Turnover: 6.4% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 23% have lived in their home 30 years or more.
Median standard of living: €25,340 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.
The median standard of living in Rang-du-Fliers is €25,340 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 56% of compared French towns. 9.0% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Rang-du-Fliers sits below 87% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (8.1%)
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
The share of households headed by a manager or professional is 7.3%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 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).
Rang-du-Fliers ranks below 86% of compared French towns on immigrants: 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 median compared commune in Pas-de-Calais has 1.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 86% of compared French towns. 1.5% of residents are foreign nationals. Across the comparison, 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.
Below 83% of compared French towns: 21% 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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 47% in Rang-du-Fliers. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 68% of compared French towns: 25%
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
Locally, a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
The 11th oldest of 41 French towns of 4,259 to 4,335 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 33.7 in Tigery to 65.3 in Courseulles-sur-Mer.
Rang-du-Fliers and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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 Rang-du-Fliers
What is the population of Rang-du-Fliers?
4,297 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (4,125).
How old are Rang-du-Fliers’ residents?
The median age is 49.3, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rang-du-Fliers?
170, with occasional dwellings: 7.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rang-du-Fliers?
INSEE counts 110 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 65 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rang-du-Fliers?
€25,340 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 9.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.