A median age of 52.3: Barenton-Cel is older than 90% of compared French towns
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Barenton-Cel’s 47 households held 108 residents at the 2023 Census. Just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, or about one in nine. Where 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town, Barenton-Cel has 7.8%.
Throughout this page, the Aisne 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 Barenton-Cel
Fewer residents than in 2012
Barenton-Cel had 133 residents at the 2012 census and 108 in 2023, down 19%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Barenton-Cel’s residents are under 52.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 25% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.4% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A −19% change since 2012: slower than 99% 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 population moved −14%, and from 2017 to 2023 −5%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Aisne town −4%.
Barenton-Cel sits above 95% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (15%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Barenton-Cel 52.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 25%, above 67% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aisne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 98% of compared French towns, at 22%
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 Aisne median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, 10% of households are single parents; in Barenton-Cel, 22%. To put it in context, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households here average 2.3 people each. Couples with children are rarer here than in 64% of compared French towns.
100% of homes are houses
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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 4.3% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 45%. Second homes are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Households without a car are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 11%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €26,470 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €26,470 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 55% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a retired person than 91% of compared French towns: 22%
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, the share of households headed by a manager or professional is 9.4%; Barenton-Cel has 11%. Measured more widely, nearly a third 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).
Fewer immigrants than 84% of compared French towns: 2.8%
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.
1.9% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 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.
Married residents make up 48% in Barenton-Cel, more than in 84% 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
Single residents: 27%, above 62% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
Barenton-Cel ranks below 98% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 14%
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
Set against 19% in the typical compared French town, 29% of adults out of school have no qualification in Barenton-Cel. Typically, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 108 to 2,582 people: this is the 8th 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.
Every neighbor is younger than Barenton-Cel
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 Barenton-Cel
What is the population of Barenton-Cel?
108 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 19% fewer than in 2012 (133).
How old are Barenton-Cel’s residents?
The median age is 52.3, older than 90% of compared French towns. 6.5% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Barenton-Cel?
0, with occasional dwellings: 0% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Barenton-Cel?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.8% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (1.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Barenton-Cel?
€26,470 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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