7.6% of residents are 15 to 24, below 95% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, the share of second homes is 2.1%; Le Val has 8.7%. Few places have as many households headed by a retired person: 40% here, more than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 4,335 residents and 1,970 households locally. 5.1% of households rent social housing (HLM).
Throughout this page, the Var 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 Le Val
An older town
Half of Le Val’s residents are under 50.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Le Val has changed by +3%, slower than 56% 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 compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Var town +10%. The change was +2% from 2012 to 2017 and +1% from 2017 to 2023.
Half of Le Val is over 50.8, older than 86% 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
■ Le Val 50.8. The median compared French town: 44.
30% of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%.
22% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 65% 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 Var median and the France median
Living alone · share
One-person households: 32% here and 35% in the typical compared French town. For couples with children, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%. On average, 2.1 people share a household. Few places have as many single-parent households: 10% here, more than in 50% of compared French towns.
Fewer flats than 73% of compared French towns: 17%
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
One household in 14 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Locally, 7.4% of households have no car. At 8.8%, the share of empty homes is higher than in 71% of compared French towns. As a reference point, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town.
A typical living standard of €26,060 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.
Half of Le Val’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,060 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 51% of compared French towns. As for poverty, 14.0% of residents are below the line.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 65% of compared French towns: 12%
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, 10% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Against that, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.1% of residents in Le Val are immigrants
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 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Var has 6.5%. About one in 16: that is how common immigrants are in Le Val (6.1%). The town sits close to the norm on foreign nationals: 4.1%, about the same as 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 smaller share of single residents than 80% of compared French towns: 22%
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
45% of residents 15 and over are married, against 43% in the typical compared French town. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 52% of compared French towns: 29%
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 make up about one in five here (19%). For graduates of higher education, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
Among 41 French towns of 4,299 to 4,367 people, the 7th oldest
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 Tigery (33.7), the youngest, and Le Château-d'Oléron (55), the oldest.
A younger town than 2 of the 6 around it: Le Val
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 Le Val
What is the population of Le Val?
4,335 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (4,198).
How old are Le Val’s residents?
The median age is 50.8, older than 86% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Val?
210, with occasional dwellings: 8.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Val?
INSEE counts 270 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.1% of residents, and 180 foreign nationals (4.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Val?
€26,060 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 14.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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