Photo: JP Hamon · CC BY-SA 3.0Empty homes: 3.1%, a lower share than 95% of compared French towns
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Ifs has 14%. 11,937 residents in 5,320 households: that is Ifs at the 2023 Census. Households in social housing account for 27%. Single-parent households are more common here than in 91% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Calvados 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.
+4% since 2012: slower than 52% 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
The median Calvados town changed +1% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +3% and the next six +1%.
Half of Ifs is under 39.4, younger than 82% 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
■ Ifs 39.4. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over; in Ifs, 18%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of one-person households than 65% of compared French towns: 39%
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 Calvados median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.2 people. At 25%, the share of couples with children is lower than in 53% of compared French towns. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%.
Ifs ranks above 67% of compared French towns on flats: 43%
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
Without a car: one household in seven, against 11% in the median compared French town. For Ifs, the census puts households without a car at 14%. Few places have so few second homes: 1.2% here, fewer than in 74% of compared French towns. The benchmark for flats in the typical compared French town: 30%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €25,030 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 Ifs is €25,030 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 60% of compared French towns. 16.0% of residents live below the poverty line INSEE uses.
Ifs sits below 80% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (26%)
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
With households headed by a manual worker at 17%, Ifs is ahead of 71% of compared French towns on that count. Set beside that, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manager or professional account for 9.2%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.6% of residents in Ifs are immigrants
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 higher than in just over half of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Calvados has 3.1%. Foreign nationals: 4.2% of the total.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 35% of residents 15 and over are married in Ifs
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 a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town, Ifs has 32%. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
More adults with no qualification than 60% of compared French towns: 21%
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
At 30%, the share of graduates of higher education is higher than in 50% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
11th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 11,644 to 12,241
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 Dugny (31.9), the youngest, and Saint-Cyprien (61.1), the oldest.
Of the 6 towns nearest Ifs, 3 are older
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ifs | 39.4 | 18% | 1.2% | 6.6% |
| Fleury-sur-Orne 5,941 · 1.1 mi | 36.3 | 17% | 1.2% | 7.6% |
| Cormelles-le-Royal 5,377 · 1.1 mi | 43.8 | 25% | 0.6% | 5.8% |
| Louvigny 2,612 · 2.2 mi | 46.1 | 26% | 1.7% | 3.7% |
| Mondeville 10,331 · 2.4 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 1.2% | 5.2% |
| Caen 109,400 · 2.7 mi | 33.7 | 19% | 3.7% | 11% |
| Bourguébus 2,613 · 2.9 mi | 34.6 | 9.8% | 0.2% | 2.3% |
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 Ifs
What is the population of Ifs?
11,937 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (11,450).
How old are Ifs’ residents?
The median age is 39.4, younger than 82% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ifs?
64, with occasional dwellings: 1.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ifs?
INSEE counts 790 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.6% of residents, and 500 foreign nationals (4.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ifs?
€25,030 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 16.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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