Above 99% of compared French towns: 33% of households are headed by a manual worker
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Butten has 8.7%. Across Butten, nearly one in ten homes are flats. Few places have as many empty homes: 10% here, more than in 81% of compared French towns. The town had 640 residents in 270 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Bas-Rhin 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.
Slower growth than 83% of compared French towns: Butten changed by −3% 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
The first five years brought +1%; the six to 2023, −4%. For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Bas-Rhin town +6%.
Butten is older than 66% of compared French towns: a median age of 46.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Butten 46.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Locally, 22% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Bas-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 84% of compared French towns: 28%
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 Bas-Rhin median and the France median
Living alone · share
Where 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, Butten has 30%. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 65% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. There are 2.3 people in the average household.
In Butten, 6.4% of households have no car, fewer than in 77% 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
Some 5.4% of households are newcomers of under two years, against 40% who have been there 30 years or more. Across the comparison, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. The census found that 1.8% of homes are second homes in Butten. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €27,120 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 Butten is €27,120 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 62% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 5.7%, a lower share than 79% 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
Nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 29% in Butten. The share of households headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Butten sits below 94% of compared French towns for immigrants (1.7%)
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 median compared commune in Bas-Rhin has 8.5%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 94% of compared French towns. For comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Census figures put foreign nationals at 1.3% in Butten.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
More married residents than 93% of compared French towns: 50%
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
Here 21% of residents 15 and over are single, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Butten ranks below 92% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 17%
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
The share of adults with no qualification tops just over three quarters of compared French towns: 24%. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
41 French towns of 640 to 2,582 people: this is 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
A younger town than 4 of the 6 around it: Butten
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butten | 46.4 | 22% | 1.8% | 1.7% |
| Sarre-Union 2,731 · 6.5 mi | 48.8 | 28% | 1.8% | 10% |
| Sarralbe 4,364 · 9.3 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 1.4% | 6% |
| Hambach 2,766 · 10.7 mi | 47.8 | 23% | 1.3% | 9.3% |
| Bitche 4,966 · 10.9 mi | 41 | 23% | 3.1% | 9.9% |
| Sarreguemines 20,143 · 12.1 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 1.6% | 15% |
| Woustviller 2,786 · 12.4 mi | 50 | 26% | 0.1% | 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 Butten
What is the population of Butten?
640 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (663).
How old are Butten’s residents?
The median age is 46.4, older than 66% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Butten?
6, with occasional dwellings: 1.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Butten?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 8 foreign nationals (1.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Butten?
€27,120 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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