Ognes ranks below 99% of compared French towns on flats: 2.7%
Here 24% of households are one person living alone, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 35%. Ognes has fewer households without a car than 90% of compared French towns, at 4.6%. 1,109 residents in 480 households: that is Ognes at the 2023 Census. In Ognes, just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
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 Ognes
Fewer residents than in 2012
Ognes had 1,188 residents at the 2012 census and 1,109 in 2023, down 7%: slower growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of −7% since 2012 leaves Ognes behind 92% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −6%, then ±0% to 2023. Over those years, the median Aisne town changed −4% and the median compared French town +5%.
Older than 74% of compared French towns: half of Ognes is over 48
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Ognes 48. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 9.4%, against 11% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Aisne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Ognes: 29% of households are couples with children, above 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 Aisne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 9.2%. By way of comparison, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 2.3 people.
Above 66% of compared French towns: 8.2% of homes stand empty
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Newcomers of less than two years account for 7% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 27%. Second homes make up 1.7%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Standard of living at the median: €25,860 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 median standard of living in Ognes is €25,860 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 51% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 38% in Ognes, more than in 76% 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
Households headed by a manual worker: 9.7% here and 14% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Across Ognes, one in ten 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).
Ognes sits below 88% of compared French towns for immigrants (2.4%)
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: 1.1% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Aisne has 5.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 88% of compared French towns. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Ognes, 51% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 93% 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
The share of single residents is 21%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
In Ognes, 26% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 64% 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
Just over a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
Ranked by age, 15th 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.
Ognes 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 Ognes
What is the population of Ognes?
1,109 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% fewer than in 2012 (1,188).
How old are Ognes’ residents?
The median age is 48, older than 74% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ognes?
9, with occasional dwellings: 1.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ognes?
INSEE counts 26 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 13 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ognes?
€25,860 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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