Half of Oppède is over 53.6, older than 92% of compared French towns
The share of households without a car is 2.9%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Oppède counted 1,285 residents and 630 households at the 2023 Census. Here, 1.4% of households rent social housing (HLM). Few places have so few single-parent households: 6.4% here, fewer than in 94% of compared French towns.
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.
What stands out about the people of Oppède
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 270 second homes and occasional dwellings in Oppède, 28% of its 980 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 97% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Oppède’s residents are under 53.6 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 95% of compared French towns: 28% of homes are second homes
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
Flats: 13% here and 30% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in 12: nearly one in ten homes stand empty.
Since 2012, Oppède has changed by −4%, slower than 85% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was −1%; from 2017 to 2023, −4%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Vaucluse town +7%.
Below 97% of compared French towns: 7.2% of residents are 15 to 24
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Oppède 53.6. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 65 and over at 29%, Oppède is ahead of 83% of compared French towns on that count. For comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
In Oppède, 21% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 69% 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 Vaucluse median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.1 people. Couples with children: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Oppède has more one-person households than just over half of compared French towns, at 35%.
Median standard of living: €27,270 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 residents live in households above €27,270 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 64% of compared French towns.
In Oppède, 45% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 92% 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
In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker; in Oppède, 6.4%. On the census count, 8% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Set beside that, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 7.4% of Oppède’s residents
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 higher than in 56% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Vaucluse has 6.8%. Locally, 5.1% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents: 22%, a lower share than 81% 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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 46% in Oppède. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
33% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, more than in 61% 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
18% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 53% of compared French towns. Against that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 1,285 to 2,582 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
No nearby town is as old as Oppède
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppède | 53.6 | 29% | 28% | 7.4% |
| Robion 4,816 · 3.2 mi | 48.1 | 25% | 5.9% | 4.3% |
| Cheval-Blanc 4,362 · 5.6 mi | 48.8 | 24% | 4.8% | 5% |
| Cavaillon 25,636 · 6.3 mi | 44.2 | 24% | 3.1% | 20% |
| Orgon 2,762 · 7.7 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 4.6% | 13% |
| L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 20,244 · 7.7 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 9.9% | 9% |
| Sénas 6,925 · 8.3 mi | 45.2 | 24% | 1.3% | 6.7% |
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 Oppède
What is the population of Oppède?
1,285 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (1,339).
How old are Oppède’s residents?
The median age is 53.6, older than 92% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Oppède?
270, with occasional dwellings: 28% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Oppède?
INSEE counts 94 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.4% of residents, and 65 foreign nationals (5.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Oppède?
€27,270 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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