Beaune ranks below 87% of compared French towns on couples with children: 16%
10% of homes stand empty (typical compared French town: 6.7%). Flats are more common here than in 83% of compared French towns. Beaune’s 10,510 households held 20,352 residents at the 2023 Census. Census figures put households headed by a manual worker at 17% here.
Throughout this page, the Côte-d'Or 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 Beaune
Fewer residents than in 2012
Beaune had 21,806 residents at the 2012 census and 20,352 in 2023, down 7%: slower growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many people living alone
47% of Beaune’s households are one person: higher than in 88% of compared French towns; 36% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Beaune’s population moved −7% on 2012, less than in 92% 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 change was −4% from 2012 to 2017 and −3% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Côte-d'Or town −2%.
Beaune is older than 72% of compared French towns: a median age of 47.6
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Beaune 47.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Nothing unusual on residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town. In Beaune, just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Beaune sits above 88% of compared French towns for one-person households (47%)
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 Côte-d'Or median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 1.9 people on average. Compared with other places, single-parent households are scarce here: 8.8%, fewer than in 69% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
More second homes than 77% of compared French towns: 5%
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 six, against 11% in the median compared French town. The wider picture: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Roughly two in ten: 18% of households have no car. Compared with other places, households in social housing are common here: 20%, more than in 77% of compared French towns.
A median standard of living of €25,870 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 Beaune is €25,870 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 51% of compared French towns. 15.0% of residents live below the poverty line INSEE uses.
The largest group of households: retired (32%)
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
Households headed by a manager or professional account for 10%. Lower than in 53% of compared French towns: 32% of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A higher share of foreign nationals than 69% of compared French towns, at 6.9%
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 Côte-d'Or has 7.3%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in three fifths of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Immigrants: 8.1% of the total.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Beaune ranks below 79% of compared French towns on married residents: 38%
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
Single residents: 28%, above two thirds of compared French towns. Set beside that, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Beaune sits above 72% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (24%)
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 just over half of compared French towns. Across the comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 7th oldest of 41 French towns of 19,782 to 20,921 people
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Carrières-sous-Poissy (32.6), the oldest Concarneau (53.9).
2 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Beaune
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaune | 47.6 | 26% | 5% | 8.1% |
| Chagny 5,350 · 9.1 mi | 48 | 25% | 1.6% | 5.8% |
| Nuits-Saint-Georges 5,235 · 9.3 mi | 48.4 | 28% | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Gergy 2,566 · 11.6 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 2.7% | 3.1% |
| Champforgeuil 2,637 · 14.4 mi | 42.1 | 23% | 1.3% | 11% |
| Gevrey-Chambertin 2,917 · 15.7 mi | 46.2 | 23% | 2.1% | 4.4% |
| Châtenoy-le-Royal 6,267 · 16 mi | 45.8 | 27% | 0.9% | 9% |
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 Beaune
What is the population of Beaune?
20,352 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% fewer than in 2012 (21,806).
How old are Beaune’s residents?
The median age is 47.6, older than 72% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Beaune?
620, with occasional dwellings: 5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Beaune?
INSEE counts 1,640 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.1% of residents, and 1,400 foreign nationals (6.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Beaune?
€25,870 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 15.0% 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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