Quend: 80% of homes are second homes, above 99% of compared French towns
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 7.5%, Quend is behind 95% of compared French towns on that count. The share of households in social housing stands at 2.3%. Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than in 85% of compared French towns: 5.1%. Census day 2023: 1,280 residents and 600 households locally.
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 Quend
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 2,790 second homes and occasional dwellings in Quend, 80% of its 3,490 homes: higher than in 99% of compared French towns. 52% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Quend had 1,398 residents at the 2012 census and 1,280 in 2023, down 8%: slower growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Quend’s residents are under 53.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Empty homes make up 2.8% in Quend, less than in 96% 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 that moved in under two years ago: 8.5%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 24%. For comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in 75% of compared French towns. Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, 10% of households have no car in Quend.
A change of −8% since 2012 leaves Quend behind 95% 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
Here the change came as ±0% to 2017, then −8% to 2023. Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, −3% in Somme.
A median age of 53.9: Quend is older than 92% 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
■ Quend 53.9. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over; in Quend, 34%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Quend sits below 70% of compared French towns for one-person households (31%)
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
A household here holds 2.1 people on average. At 22%, the share of couples with children is lower than in 67% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Compared with 10% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten households are single parents here.
Median standard of living: €25,160 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 €25,160 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 58% of compared French towns.
Above 99% of compared French towns: 55% of households are headed by a retired person
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
Here just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 14%. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a retired person come to 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A smaller share of immigrants than 99% of compared French towns: 0.8%
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.
Foreign nationals: 0.3% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 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.
In Quend, 52% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 95% 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
Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of single residents in Quend comes in at 19%. On average, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 87% 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
The share of adults with no qualification is 26%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 7th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 2 are older than Quend
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 Quend
What is the population of Quend?
1,280 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% fewer than in 2012 (1,398).
How old are Quend’s residents?
The median age is 53.9, older than 92% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Quend?
2,790, with occasional dwellings: 80% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Quend?
INSEE counts 10 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.8% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (0.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Quend?
€25,160 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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