Rainneville: 38% of households are couples with children, above 97% of compared French towns
Households without a car make up 4.9%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Here, 1.4% of households rent social housing (HLM). With a median age of 39.7, Rainneville is younger than 81% of compared French towns. This Somme town had 1,123 residents in 450 households at the 2023 Census.
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 Rainneville
A town of families
38% of households are couples with children and 8.1% single parents with children; 20% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
Rainneville had 836 residents at the 2012 census and 1,123 in 2023, up 34%: faster growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +34% change since 2012: Rainneville grew faster than 98% 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
The median Somme town changed −3% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +19% and the next six +13%.
In Rainneville, 18% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 78% 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
■ Rainneville 39.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 come to 10% in Rainneville, about one in ten. Set beside that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 22%, a lower share than 98% 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
Against a figure of 10% in the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households in Rainneville comes in at 8.1%. Measured more widely, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. The average household has 2.5 people.
4% of homes stand empty, fewer than in 87% 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
Long tenure is the mark of 26% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 14% (under two years). Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Second homes: 0.7%, below 91% of compared French towns.
At the median, €28,130 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.
Half of Rainneville’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €28,130 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 72% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 14%, a higher share than 73% of compared French towns
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 manual worker make up 12%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manager or professional come to 9.4%. On the census count, 33% 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).
2.1% of residents are immigrants, below 90% 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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 0.9% of residents are foreign nationals in Rainneville. The benchmark for immigrants in the typical compared French town: 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Rainneville sits below 89% of compared French towns for single residents (20%)
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
By its share of married residents (48%), Rainneville is above 82% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification make up 15% in Rainneville, less than in 75% 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
The share of graduates of higher education tops just over three fifths of compared French towns: 33%. On average, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,123 to 2,582 people: this is the 2nd 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.
Nearby, 5 of 6 towns have older populations than Rainneville
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 Rainneville
What is the population of Rainneville?
1,123 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 34% more than in 2012 (836).
How old are Rainneville’s residents?
The median age is 39.7, younger than 81% of compared French towns. 25% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Rainneville?
3, with occasional dwellings: 0.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Rainneville?
INSEE counts 24 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.1% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Rainneville?
€28,130 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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