A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 97% of compared French towns: 7.1%
One in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town, against 6.4% in Bouilly. On the census count, 7.9% of households have no car. Flats are rarer here than in 87% of compared French towns. This Aube town counted 1,073 residents and 470 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Aube 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 Bouilly
An older town
Half of Bouilly’s residents are under 50.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 13% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 63% of compared French towns: Bouilly changed by +2% 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
A median age of 50.7: Bouilly is older than 85% 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
■ Bouilly 50.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 31% of residents are 65 or over in Bouilly.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aube 52.1%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Fewer one-person households than 58% of compared French towns: 34%
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 Aube median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2.2 people. A quarter of households are couples with children, a lower share than in 52% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
In Bouilly, 9.1% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 65% of compared French towns
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
Second homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 1.5%. By way of comparison, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. In the last two years, 7.6% of households moved in; at the other end, 30% have stayed 30 years or more. On empty homes, Bouilly sits lower than 55% of compared French towns: 6.4%.
The median resident lives on €26,610 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.
Half of residents live in households above €26,610 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 57% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 37% in Bouilly, more than in 74% 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
In Bouilly, 8.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Compared with other places, households headed by a manual worker are common here: 14%, more than in 50% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A smaller share of foreign nationals than 96% of compared French towns: 0.8%
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.
2.6% of residents are immigrants, against 6.5% in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 86% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Aube has 9.2%. Elsewhere, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
Bouilly ranks above 74% of compared French towns on married residents: 46%
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
Nearly a quarter of residents 15 and over are single; in the typical compared French town the figure is 25%. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification: 23%, a higher share than 72% 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
Graduates of higher education make up 27%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Against that, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,073 to 2,582 people: this is the 11th 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).
No nearby town is as old as Bouilly
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouilly | 50.7 | 31% | 1.5% | 2.6% |
| Rosières-près-Troyes 4,840 · 5.8 mi | 32.7 | 15% | 3% | 8.5% |
| Bréviandes 3,219 · 6.4 mi | 41.4 | 22% | 0.7% | 9.6% |
| La Rivière-de-Corps 3,692 · 6.4 mi | 44.6 | 25% | 0.9% | 6% |
| Saint-André-les-Vergers 12,806 · 6.6 mi | 41.9 | 23% | 1.2% | 12% |
| Saint-Julien-les-Villas 6,760 · 7.3 mi | 47.5 | 25% | 1.3% | 8.6% |
| Sainte-Savine 10,289 · 7.3 mi | 46 | 24% | 2.2% | 8.1% |
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 Bouilly
What is the population of Bouilly?
1,073 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (1,056).
How old are Bouilly’s residents?
The median age is 50.7, older than 85% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bouilly?
8, with occasional dwellings: 1.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bouilly?
INSEE counts 28 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (0.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bouilly?
€26,610 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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