Flats: 0.6%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
By its share of households without a car (3.9%), Fretterans is below 94% of compared French towns. Census figures put households headed by a manager or professional at 3.3% here. More empty homes than in 82% of compared French towns: 11%. At the 2023 Census, 281 people lived in the town, in 140 households.
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 Fretterans
An older town
Half of Fretterans’ residents are under 52.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.2% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of −3% since 2012 leaves Fretterans behind 83% 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 −1%, and from 2017 to 2023 −2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Saône-et-Loire town −3%.
Half of Fretterans is over 52.3, older than 90% 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
■ Fretterans 52.3. The median compared French town: 44.
22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, against 29% in Fretterans. Across Fretterans, 12% of residents are 15 to 24.
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 86% 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
The average household has 2.1 people. Set beside that, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, single-parent households are common here: 11%, more than in 61% of compared French towns. At the same time, the share of one-person households is 33%, against 35% in the typical compared French town.
Fretterans sits above 88% of compared French towns for second homes (9.9%)
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
Households that moved in under two years ago: 7.8%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 35%. The benchmark for second homes in the typical compared French town: 2.1%.
At the median, €24,330 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,330 a year: lower than in 68% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 87% of compared French towns, at 42%
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
14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town, against 6.9% in Fretterans. As a yardstick, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Fretterans, 0.7% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 99% 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.
The median compared commune in Saône-et-Loire has 6.9%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 99% of compared French towns. Immigrants make up 6.5% in the typical compared French town. Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Fretterans has 0.7%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents make up 21% in Fretterans, less than in 87% 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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 48% in Fretterans. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Graduates of higher education: 12%, a lower share than 99% 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
Across Fretterans, 20% of adults out of school have no qualification. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 8th oldest of 41 French towns of 281 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is younger than Fretterans
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 Fretterans
What is the population of Fretterans?
281 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (291).
How old are Fretterans’ residents?
The median age is 52.3, older than 90% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Fretterans?
17, with occasional dwellings: 9.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Fretterans?
INSEE counts 2 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.7% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (0.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Fretterans?
€24,330 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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