Gentelles sits above 99% of compared French towns for couples with children (43%)
With a median age of 40.3, Gentelles is younger than 77% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 627, in 240 households. For Gentelles, the census puts flats at 1.2%. 3.7% of households have no car (typical compared French town: 11%).
Throughout this page, the Somme 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 Gentelles
A town of families
43% of households are couples with children and 6.1% single parents with children; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, Gentelles outgrew 74% of compared French towns: +12%
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 Somme town changed −3% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +14%, then −2% to 2023.
Residents aged 65 and over: 15%, a lower share 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
■ Gentelles 40.3. The median compared French town: 44.
One in ten residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 21% in Gentelles, less than in 99% of compared French towns
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 Somme median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households: 6.1% here and 10% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.6 people.
Empty homes: 3.9%, a lower share than 88% 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 in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The benchmark for empty homes in the typical compared French town: 6.7%. 0.4% of homes are second homes.
A typical living standard of €29,900 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €29,900 a year: higher than in 84% of compared French towns.
Gentelles ranks below 86% of compared French towns on households headed by a manual worker: 8.2%
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
16% of households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. On the census count, a third of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 98% of compared French towns: 1.3%
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 share of foreign nationals is 0.5%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 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.
A lower share of single residents than 94% of compared French towns, at 19%
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 43% in the typical compared French town, 45% of residents 15 and over are married in Gentelles. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Gentelles ranks below 93% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 11%
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 graduates of higher education (41%), Gentelles is above 81% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (627 to 2,582 people), the 4th youngest
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.
No nearby town is as young as Gentelles
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 Gentelles
What is the population of Gentelles?
627 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% more than in 2012 (562).
How old are Gentelles’ residents?
The median age is 40.3, younger than 77% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Gentelles?
1, with occasional dwellings: 0.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Gentelles?
INSEE counts 8 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.3% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (0.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Gentelles?
€29,900 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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