Velennes ranks below 97% of compared French towns on households without a car: 3.4%
Residents aged 65 and over make up 18%, against 22% in the typical compared French town. 10% of homes stand empty, more than in 82% of compared French towns. Velennes’s 58 households held 141 residents at the 2023 Census. Second homes make up about one in 33 here (3%).
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 Velennes
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 0% single parents with children; 16% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 83% of compared French towns: Velennes changed by −3% since 2012
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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and −3% for the median Somme town, the change came in two steps: +2% from 2012 to 2017, then −5% to 2023.
Younger than 74% of compared French towns: half of Velennes is under 40.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Velennes 40.8. The median compared French town: 44.
13% of residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%).
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
33% of households are couples with children, more than in 88% 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
In the typical compared French town, 35% of households are one person living alone; in Velennes, 33%. On average, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. There are 2.4 people in the average household. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
99% of homes are houses
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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 1.7% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 31%.
Standard of living at the median: €23,190 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 €23,190 a year: lower than in 80% of compared French towns.
In Velennes, 25% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 96% 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
32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 25% in Velennes. The wider picture: 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Across Velennes, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 0.7% of residents are immigrants in Velennes
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Somme has 2.5%. Across the 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.
More married residents than 52% of compared French towns: 43%
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
Census figures put single residents at 25% in Velennes.
23% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 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
In Velennes, 16% of adults out of school have no qualification, beside 19% in the typical compared French town. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 4th youngest 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Velennes and its 6 nearest towns: 5 of them are older
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Velennes | 40.8 | 18% | 3% | 0.7% |
| Saleux 2,739 · 9.3 mi | 43.7 | 22% | 0.9% | 3.8% |
| Grandvilliers 2,786 · 9.5 mi | 51.1 | 31% | 2% | 2.6% |
| Salouël 4,179 · 10 mi | 32.5 | 19% | 1% | 3.1% |
| Crèvecœur-le-Grand 3,462 · 10.7 mi | 43.7 | 24% | 1.2% | 1.9% |
| Ailly-sur-Noye 2,648 · 12.2 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Ailly-sur-Somme 3,003 · 12.2 mi | 47.3 | 25% | 0.6% | 2.3% |
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 Velennes
What is the population of Velennes?
141 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (146).
How old are Velennes’ residents?
The median age is 40.8, younger than 74% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Velennes?
2, with occasional dwellings: 3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Velennes?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.7% of residents, and 0 foreign nationals (0%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Velennes?
€23,190 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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