Photo: Service de communication LMV Tourisme · CC BY-SA 4.0Households without a car make up 3.1% in Cheval-Blanc, less than in 98% of compared French towns
By its share of households in social housing (2.6%), Cheval-Blanc is below 95% of compared French towns. 30% of households are couples with children, or about one in three. The median age in the town is 48.8, higher than in 78% of compared French towns. The town’s 1,880 households held 4,362 residents at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Vaucluse 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.
+7% since 2012, a pace 59% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +5%, and from 2017 to 2023 +2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Vaucluse town +7%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 90% of compared French towns: 8.3%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cheval-Blanc 48.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Against a figure of 22% in the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Cheval-Blanc comes in at 24%.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Below 90% of compared French towns: 27% of households are one person living alone
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 Vaucluse median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.3 people. In the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are one person living alone. Fewer single-parent households than in 88% of compared French towns: 7.2%.
Fewer flats than 85% of compared French towns: 11%
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
4.8% of homes are second homes (Vaucluse median 3.7%, France median 2.1%) and 5.7% are empty (6.7%). The wider picture: 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. Empty homes are rarer here than in 64% of compared French towns.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €27,750 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.
Living standards centre on €27,750 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 68% of compared French towns. The poverty rate is 10.0%.
Cheval-Blanc sits above 78% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (38%)
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
In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker; in Cheval-Blanc, 11%. On the census count, 9.3% of households are headed by a manager or professional. The share of households headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Cheval-Blanc ranks below 63% of compared French towns on immigrants: 5%
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: 3%, below 64% of compared French towns. 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.
A smaller share of single residents than 94% of compared French towns: 19%
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
The share of married residents is 50%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
More graduates of higher education than 58% of compared French towns: 32%
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 account for 18%. In the typical compared French town, graduates of higher education come to 30%.
The 13th oldest of 41 French towns of 4,333 to 4,392 people
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 33 in Labège to 55 in Le Château-d'Oléron.
Every neighbor is younger than Cheval-Blanc
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 Cheval-Blanc
What is the population of Cheval-Blanc?
4,362 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (4,080).
How old are Cheval-Blanc’s residents?
The median age is 48.8, older than 78% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cheval-Blanc?
100, with occasional dwellings: 4.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cheval-Blanc?
INSEE counts 220 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5% of residents, and 130 foreign nationals (3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cheval-Blanc?
€27,750 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 10.0% 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.