Photo: Sebleouf · CC BY-SA 4.0Lissieu: 37% of households are couples with children, above 96% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%; Lissieu has 5.4%. The town counted 3,181 residents and 1,240 households at the 2023 Census. Locally, 20% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Second homes are more common here than in 83% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Rhône 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 Lissieu
A town of families
37% of households are couples with children and 8.2% single parents with children; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Many graduates
58% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 28% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
+4% since 2012: slower than 55% 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
The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Rhône town +10%. The change was +2% from 2012 to 2017 and +2% from 2017 to 2023.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 66% of compared French towns: 20%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Lissieu 43.4. The median compared French town: 44.
10% of residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). With a median age of 43.4, Lissieu is younger than 55% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
Only 24% of households are one person living alone in Lissieu
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 Rhône median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.6 people. Few places have so few single-parent households: 8.2% here, fewer than in 78% of compared French towns. To put it in context, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
8.7% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 67% 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
With empty homes at 8.3%, Lissieu is ahead of 66% of compared French towns on that count. By contrast, at 23%, the share of flats is lower than in 62% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. Long tenure is the mark of 25% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 6.4% (under two years).
At the median, €37,700 a year to live on
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.
Half of Lissieu’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €37,700 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. Poverty touches 6.0% of residents.
8.2% of households are headed by a manual worker, below 86% 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
Across Lissieu, 31% of households are headed by a retired person. Elsewhere, 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).
Above 66% of compared French towns: 6.3% of residents are foreign nationals
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 higher than in 61% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Rhône has 8.2%. Locally, 8.1% of residents are immigrants. In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Lissieu sits above 99% of compared French towns for married residents (55%)
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
With single residents at 21%, Lissieu is behind 83% of compared French towns on that count. By way of comparison, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Lissieu: 58% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, above 97% 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
The share of adults with no qualification is 8.5%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
7th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 3,167 to 3,199
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 Thierville-sur-Meuse (37.1), the youngest, and Meschers-sur-Gironde (66.1), the oldest.
Median age: 2 of the 6 towns around Lissieu 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 Lissieu
What is the population of Lissieu?
3,181 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (3,072).
How old are Lissieu’s residents?
The median age is 43.4, younger than 55% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lissieu?
100, with occasional dwellings: 6.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lissieu?
INSEE counts 260 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.1% of residents, and 200 foreign nationals (6.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Lissieu?
€37,700 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 6.0% 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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