Photo: centre_village_vourles · CC BY-SA 4.03.9% of households have no car, fewer than in 95% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%; Vourles has 28%. There were 1,390 households in the town at the 2023 Census, home to 3,332 residents. Households headed by a manual worker: 7.6% of the total. Fewer households in social housing than in just over three quarters of compared French towns: 7.1%.
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 Vourles
Many graduates
53% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 24% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Vourles grew +6% from 2012 to 2023, ahead of 57% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +9%, and from 2017 to 2023 −2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Rhône town +10%.
A median age of 47.2: Vourles is older than 70% 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
■ Vourles 47.2. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 9.4%, Vourles is behind three quarters of compared French towns on that count. Locally, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Rhône 51.5%, France 51.8%.
Vourles sits above 72% of compared French towns for couples with children (29%)
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
7.9% of households are single parents (typical compared French town: 10%). There are 2.4 people in the average household. Elsewhere, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Fewer empty homes than 76% of compared French towns: 4.9%
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
18% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 7.9% moved in within the last two years. Against that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few second homes: 1.2% here, fewer than in three quarters of compared French towns.
Standard of living at the median: €35,940 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 midpoint of living standards here is €35,940 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 96% of compared French towns. Some 5.0% of residents fall below the poverty line.
A higher share of households headed by a manager or professional than 94% of compared French towns, at 25%
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
Compared with 32% in the typical compared French town, 29% of households are headed by a retired person here. The usual figure: 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
2.3% of residents are foreign nationals, fewer than in 74% 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.
In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%; Vourles has 4.9%. Set beside that, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 64% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Rhône has 8.2%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Above 97% of compared French towns: 52% of residents 15 and over are married
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
Single residents: 20% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A higher share of graduates of higher education than 95% of compared French towns, at 53%
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 trails 93% of compared French towns: 11%. Against that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 14th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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 36.4 in Saint-Maximin to 61.5 in Roscoff.
Vourles is older 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 Vourles
What is the population of Vourles?
3,332 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% more than in 2012 (3,129).
How old are Vourles’ residents?
The median age is 47.2, older than 70% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Vourles?
17, with occasional dwellings: 1.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Vourles?
INSEE counts 160 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.9% of residents, and 77 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Vourles?
€35,940 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 5.0% 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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