Households without a car: 3.4%, a lower share than 98% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Empty homes make up about one in 33 here (3%). Chaumousey’s 420 households held 924 residents at the 2023 Census. Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.2% here and 11% in the typical compared French town.
Throughout this page, the Vosges 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 Chaumousey
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 60 second homes and occasional dwellings in Chaumousey, 12% of its 490 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A larger share of second homes than 89% of compared French towns: 12%
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
6.2% of households arrived within the last two years, while 28% have stayed 30 years or more. The usual figure: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 8.9%, fewer than in 89% of compared French towns.
A growing town: +5% since 2012, faster than 52% 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 those years, the median Vosges town changed −6% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +3%, then +2% to 2023.
Chaumousey is older than 65% of compared French towns: a median age of 46.3
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Chaumousey 46.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Higher than in 57% of compared French towns: 23% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Vosges 52.1%, France 51.8%.
Chaumousey ranks below 75% of compared French towns on single-parent households: 8.4%
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 Vosges median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.2 people. The wider picture: one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few one-person households: 33% here, fewer than in 64% of compared French towns. Couples with children make up 25%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
€28,440 a year is the median standard of living here
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 €28,440 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 74% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 41% in Chaumousey, more than in 86% 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
The share of households headed by a manual worker is 7.2%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Here, 9.6% of 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).
Below 96% of compared French towns: 1.5% of residents 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.
By its share of foreign nationals (0.6%), Chaumousey is below 98% of compared French towns. As a reference point, 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.
Single residents make up 19% in Chaumousey, less than in 96% 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 Chaumousey. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
In Chaumousey, 15% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 74% 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
The share of graduates of higher education is 32%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, adults with no qualification come to 19%.
41 French towns of 924 to 2,582 people: this is the 18th 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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Around Chaumousey, 4 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaumousey | 46.3 | 23% | 12% | 1.5% |
| Chantraine 3,198 · 4.2 mi | 48.1 | 24% | 1.4% | 3.9% |
| Golbey 8,832 · 4.5 mi | 44.1 | 22% | 0.9% | 5.9% |
| Épinal 32,251 · 5.3 mi | 41.3 | 22% | 3.4% | 12% |
| Thaon-les-Vosges 8,547 · 6.6 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 1.7% | 4.7% |
| Xertigny 2,589 · 8.7 mi | 47 | 27% | 4.2% | 3% |
| Mirecourt 4,700 · 13.1 mi | 49.2 | 25% | 2.1% | 6.1% |
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 Chaumousey
What is the population of Chaumousey?
924 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (878).
How old are Chaumousey’s residents?
The median age is 46.3, older than 65% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chaumousey?
60, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chaumousey?
INSEE counts 14 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 6 foreign nationals (0.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chaumousey?
€28,440 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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