Below 99% of compared French towns: 2% of homes are flats
5.4% of homes are second homes (typical compared French town: 2.1%). Esbarres had 689 residents in 300 households at the 2023 Census. In Esbarres, 11% of homes stand empty. Few places have so few one-person households: 28% here, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns.
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 Esbarres
Fewer residents than in 2012
Esbarres had 734 residents at the 2012 census and 689 in 2023, down 6%: slower growth than in 91% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower than most: −6% since 2012, behind 91% 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
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 65% of compared French towns: 20%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Esbarres 44.8. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Esbarres is 44.8, higher than in 55% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. In Esbarres, 10% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%.
Esbarres: 32% of households are couples with children, above 82% of compared French towns
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
Households here average 2.3 people each. Single-parent households are more common here than in 73% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Households without a car: 5.4%, a lower share than 85% 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
In the last two years, 7.8% of households moved in; at the other end, 26% have stayed 30 years or more. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town.
The median resident lives on €25,690 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 €25,690 a year: lower than in 53% of compared French towns.
Below 86% of compared French towns: 5% of households are headed by a manager or professional
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
Here 17% of households are headed by a manual worker, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 14%. Households headed by a retired person: 32% of the total. The benchmark for households headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town: 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
2% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 91% of compared French towns
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.
4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, against 1% in Esbarres. Typically, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Only 21% of residents 15 and over are single in Esbarres
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 account for 42%. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 75% of compared French towns: 23%
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
Just over a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification, against 19% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
Ranked by age, 18th youngest of 41 French towns this size
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, 5 are older than Esbarres
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
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 Esbarres
What is the population of Esbarres?
689 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% fewer than in 2012 (734).
How old are Esbarres’ residents?
The median age is 44.8, older than 55% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Esbarres?
19, with occasional dwellings: 5.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Esbarres?
INSEE counts 14 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Esbarres?
€25,690 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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