Half of Chaunay is over 53.8, older than 92% of compared French towns
Against a figure of 10% in the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households in Chaunay comes in at 3.4%. Households headed by a manual worker make up about one in four here (27%). At 8.3%, the share of second homes is higher than in 86% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 1,194 residents in 590 households.
Throughout this page, the Vienne 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 Chaunay
An older town
Half of Chaunay’s residents are under 53.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 13% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 110 homes empty (14%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Chaunay has changed by +1%, slower than 64% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Vienne town +4%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +3%; from 2017 to 2023, −1%.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.4% in Chaunay, less than in 98% 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
■ Chaunay 53.8. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 34%, against 22% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 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: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
Above 82% of compared French towns: 44% 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 Vienne median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 1.9 people. 21% of households are couples with children, a lower share than in 68% of compared French towns. Typically, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Chaunay sits above 94% of compared French towns for empty homes (14%)
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
Nearly one in ten households rent social housing (HLM), against 12% in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Flats: 10% of the total. Chaunay has more households without a car than 60% of compared French towns, at 13%.
A typical living standard of €22,960 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 Chaunay’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €22,960 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 82% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 0.9%, a lower share than 99% 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
46% of households are headed by a retired person; in the typical compared French town the figure is 32%. Set beside that, 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
More foreign nationals than 70% of compared French towns: 7%
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 62% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Vienne has 3.9%. As a yardstick, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Across Chaunay, 8.3% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 20% of residents 15 and over are single in Chaunay
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
In Chaunay, just over two in five residents 15 and over are married, beside 43% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
19% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 89% 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
Adults with no qualification: 28%, above 86% of compared French towns. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
Ranked by age, 7th oldest 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 3 are older than Chaunay
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 Chaunay
What is the population of Chaunay?
1,194 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% more than in 2012 (1,179).
How old are Chaunay’s residents?
The median age is 53.8, older than 92% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chaunay?
63, with occasional dwellings: 8.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chaunay?
INSEE counts 99 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.3% of residents, and 84 foreign nationals (7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chaunay?
€22,960 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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