Chassy is older than 91% of compared French towns: a median age of 53.1
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, 1.2% of homes are flats here. Chassy has fewer households headed by a retired person than 94% of compared French towns, at 21%. 296 residents in 140 households: that is Chassy at the 2023 Census. Households without a car account for 2.8%.
Throughout this page, the Saône-et-Loire 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 Chassy
Fewer residents than in 2012
Chassy had 333 residents at the 2012 census and 296 in 2023, down 11%: slower growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Chassy’s residents are under 53.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 25% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 98% of compared French towns: Chassy changed by −11% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was −6%; from 2017 to 2023, −5%.
7.4% of residents are 15 to 24, below 95% 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
■ Chassy 53.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Here a quarter of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%. The wider picture: 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 114 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Saône-et-Loire 52.3%, France 51.8%.
Below 84% of compared French towns: 17% of households are couples with children
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 Saône-et-Loire median and the France median
Living alone · share
Where just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Chassy has 31%. Couples with children: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Single-parent households account for 14%.
Chassy sits below 98% of compared French towns for households in social housing (1.4%)
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
Turnover: 9.2% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 38% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Households in social housing make up 12% in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 6%, more than in four fifths of compared French towns. In Chassy, nearly one in ten homes stand empty, beside 6.7% in the typical compared French town.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €25,440 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 €25,440 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 69% of compared French towns: 6.9%
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 manual worker stands at 14%. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manager or professional is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 63% of compared French towns: 5.1%
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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Chassy comes in at 3%. Immigrants make up 6.5% 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.
52% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 96% 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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, a fifth of residents 15 and over are single in Chassy. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 89% of compared French towns: 19%
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
By its share of adults with no qualification (16%), Chassy is below 69% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 7th oldest of 41 French towns of 296 to 2,582 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 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Chassy 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.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chassy | 53.1 | 25% | 6% | 5.1% |
| Gueugnon 6,528 · 2.2 mi | 58 | 38% | 1.8% | 8.6% |
| Digoin 7,353 · 8.6 mi | 53.9 | 34% | 1.9% | 15% |
| Paray-le-Monial 9,291 · 9.5 mi | 54.2 | 36% | 3.4% | 7.2% |
| Sanvignes-les-Mines 4,235 · 10.3 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 1.1% | 2.9% |
| Saint-Vallier 8,508 · 12.8 mi | 52.3 | 32% | 1.7% | 5% |
| Charolles 2,772 · 13.4 mi | 53.6 | 34% | 4.9% | 4% |
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 Chassy
What is the population of Chassy?
296 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% fewer than in 2012 (333).
How old are Chassy’s residents?
The median age is 53.1, older than 91% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chassy?
10, with occasional dwellings: 6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chassy?
INSEE counts 15 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.1% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chassy?
€25,440 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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