Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.3% of homes are flats
Where nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town, Origny-le-Sec has 3.6%. 604 residents in 270 households: that is Origny-le-Sec at the 2023 Census. Residents aged 15 to 24: 7.8% of the total. Few places have so few households without a car: 4.4% here, fewer than in 92% of compared French towns.
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 Origny-le-Sec
Fewer residents than in 2012
Origny-le-Sec had 656 residents at the 2012 census and 604 in 2023, down 8%: slower growth than in 94% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of −8% since 2012 leaves Origny-le-Sec behind 94% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Aube town +2%.
In Origny-le-Sec, 27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 76% 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
■ Origny-le-Sec 46.6. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 46.6, Origny-le-Sec is older than two thirds of compared French towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Aube 52.1%, France 51.8%.
Only 27% of households are one person living alone in Origny-le-Sec
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
Average household size: 2.2 people. Couples with children are more common here than in 60% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. The share of single-parent households is 11%, against 10% in the typical compared French town.
In Origny-le-Sec, 11% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 57% 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
There is little gap on empty homes: 7.6%, about the same as in the typical compared French town. For comparison, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. In the last two years, 7% of households moved in; at the other end, 39% have stayed 30 years or more.
The median resident lives on €24,510 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,510 a year: lower than in 66% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 38% in Origny-le-Sec, more than in 78% 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
The share of households headed by a manual worker tops 75% of compared French towns: 18%. Households headed by a retired person: 32% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.8% of residents are immigrants in Origny-le-Sec
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 94% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Aube has 9.2%. As a reference point, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. About one in 56: that is how common foreign nationals are in Origny-le-Sec (1.8%).
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 99% of compared French towns: 17%
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
Married residents make up 48%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Only 18% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Origny-le-Sec
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
Nearly a quarter of adults out of school have no qualification, against 19% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
18th highest median age among 41 French towns of 604 to 2,582
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.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 2 are older than Origny-le-Sec
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origny-le-Sec | 46.6 | 27% | 2.3% | 1.8% |
| Romilly-sur-Seine 14,959 · 3.9 mi | 42.8 | 23% | 2.7% | 17% |
| Nogent-sur-Seine 5,537 · 12.4 mi | 42.5 | 22% | 6.5% | 13% |
| Saint-Lyé 2,956 · 12.8 mi | 47.7 | 25% | 1.1% | 5% |
| Villenauxe-la-Grande 2,605 · 13.2 mi | 41.3 | 22% | 3.5% | 9.4% |
| Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis 3,236 · 16.2 mi | 51.4 | 31% | 9.7% | 2.8% |
| La Chapelle-Saint-Luc 12,648 · 16.3 mi | 36.3 | 19% | 1.1% | 24% |
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 Origny-le-Sec
What is the population of Origny-le-Sec?
604 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% fewer than in 2012 (656).
How old are Origny-le-Sec’s residents?
The median age is 46.6, older than 67% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Origny-le-Sec?
7, with occasional dwellings: 2.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Origny-le-Sec?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.8% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Origny-le-Sec?
€24,510 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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