A larger share of couples with children than 99% of compared French towns: 41%
Households headed by a manual worker make up 36%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. Morchain is home to 362 residents in 130 households, by the 2023 Census. On the census count, 0.8% of households rent social housing (HLM). 16% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 87% of compared French towns.
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 Morchain
A town of families
41% of households are couples with children and 8% single parents with children; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
+16% since 2012, a pace 84% of compared French towns didn’t match
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
In two steps, +13% to 2017 and +3% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −3% in Somme.
Younger than 78% of compared French towns: half of Morchain is under 40.2
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Morchain 40.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, against 12% in Morchain.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 99% of compared French towns, at 16%
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
The figure for single-parent households is 8% in Morchain and 10% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Each household has 2.7 people on average.
In Morchain, 0.7% of homes are flats, fewer than in 99% 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
The figure for second homes is 4.6% in Morchain and 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Few places have as many empty homes: 11% here, more than in 82% of compared French towns. Against that, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town.
A median standard of living of €23,660 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.
At €23,660 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 75% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a retired person than 95% of compared French towns: 20%
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
Households headed by a manager or professional make up 4.1%, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 32% 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).
Only 0.9% of residents are immigrants in Morchain
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.
0.6% of residents are foreign nationals; in the typical compared French town the figure is 4.3%. On average, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Somme has 2.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Above 83% of compared French towns: 48% 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 make up 22%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Graduates of higher education: 19%, a lower share than 87% 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
Adults with no qualification: 25%, above 79% of compared French towns. Typically, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
3rd lowest median age among 41 French towns of 362 to 2,582
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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Every neighbor is older than Morchain
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 Morchain
What is the population of Morchain?
362 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 16% more than in 2012 (312).
How old are Morchain’s residents?
The median age is 40.2, younger than 78% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Morchain?
7, with occasional dwellings: 4.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Morchain?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.9% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (0.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Morchain?
€23,660 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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