3.6% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 92% of compared French towns
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, 14% of homes are flats here. Tournes’s 490 households held 1,055 residents at the 2023 Census. Households without a car make up about one in 16 here (6.2%). Few places have as many households headed by a retired person: 40% here, more than in 84% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Ardennes 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.
Tournes’s population moved +4% on 2012, less than in 55% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and −9% for the median Ardennes town, the change came in two steps: +6% from 2012 to 2017, then −2% to 2023.
8.4% of residents are 15 to 24, below 89% 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
■ Tournes 46.3. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Tournes is 46.3, higher than in 65% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardennes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Below 88% of compared French towns: 7.2% of households are single parents
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 Ardennes median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2.2 people on average. Fewer one-person households than in 69% of compared French towns: 31%. Elsewhere, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. The share of couples with children is 26%, against 25% in the typical compared French town.
85% 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
Long tenure is the mark of 28% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 12% (under two years). At 1.3%, the share of second homes is lower than in just over two thirds of compared French towns. Without a car: one household in 16, against 11% in the median compared French town.
A median of €28,370 a year per consumption unit
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 €28,370 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 74% of compared French towns.
Above 71% of compared French towns: 17% of households are headed by a manual worker
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
Against a figure of 9.4% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manager or professional in Tournes comes in at 8%. Households headed by a manual worker make up 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of foreign nationals than 93% of compared French towns, at 1%
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.
The figure for immigrants is 2.6% in Tournes and 6.5% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Ardennes has 6.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 86% of compared French towns. Foreign nationals: 4.3% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Tournes sits below 98% of compared French towns for single residents (18%)
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
Where 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, Tournes has 48%. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 65% of compared French towns: 16%
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
Graduates of higher education: 31% of the total. Measured more widely, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,055 to 2,582 people), 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Tournes sits below 2 of its 6 closest neighbors on 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tournes | 46.3 | 22% | 1.3% | 2.6% |
| Charleville-Mézières 45,560 · 4.2 mi | 43.4 | 23% | 2.3% | 11% |
| Nouzonville 5,523 · 5.2 mi | 46 | 23% | 0.9% | 6.2% |
| Villers-Semeuse 3,615 · 6.1 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 0.5% | 5.8% |
| Bogny-sur-Meuse 4,889 · 6.7 mi | 43.5 | 22% | 1.5% | 4.3% |
| Vivier-au-Court 2,732 · 9.4 mi | 42.4 | 20% | 0.4% | 11% |
| Revin 5,716 · 9.7 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 3% | 12% |
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 Tournes
What is the population of Tournes?
1,055 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (1,018).
How old are Tournes’ residents?
The median age is 46.3, older than 65% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tournes?
7, with occasional dwellings: 1.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tournes?
INSEE counts 27 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tournes?
€28,370 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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