A smaller share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 1.9%
17% of households are headed by a retired person (typical compared French town: 32%). Burelles’s 51 households held 123 residents at the 2023 Census. Here, 1.5% of homes are flats. The median age in the town is 50.2, higher than in 84% of compared French towns.
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 Burelles
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 9 second homes and occasional dwellings in Burelles, 13% of its 66 homes: higher than in 90% of compared French towns. 89% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Burelles had 134 residents at the 2012 census and 123 in 2023, down 8%: slower growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 0% single parents with children; 14% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More second homes than 90% of compared French towns: 13%
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
With empty homes at 10%, Burelles is ahead of 80% of compared French towns on that count. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Slower growth than 95% of compared French towns: Burelles changed by −8% since 2012
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
Here the change came as −4% to 2017, then −4% to 2023.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 77% of compared French towns: 18%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Burelles 50.2. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 tops 71% of compared French towns: 12%. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 117 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aisne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
33% of households are couples with children, more than in 88% 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 Aisne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Average household size: 2.4 people. To put it in context, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. The share of one-person households trails 59% of compared French towns: 33%.
At the median, €26,700 a year to live on
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 €26,700 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 58% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 25%, a higher share than 96% 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
For Burelles, the census puts households headed by a manager or professional at 8.3%. Set beside that, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.6% of residents are immigrants in Burelles
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 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.
Burelles ranks above 98% of compared French towns on married residents: 54%
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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, 22% of residents 15 and over are single in Burelles. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
Burelles sits above 86% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (28%)
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
In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in Burelles, 22%. Measured more widely, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 123 to 2,582 people, the 14th 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).
Burelles is older than every town around it
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 Burelles
What is the population of Burelles?
123 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% fewer than in 2012 (134).
How old are Burelles’ residents?
The median age is 50.2, older than 84% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Burelles?
9, with occasional dwellings: 13% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Burelles?
INSEE counts 2 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.6% of residents, and 0 foreign nationals (0%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Burelles?
€26,700 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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