Ouges is younger than 99% of compared French towns: a median age of 28.6
The figure for flats is 11% in Ouges and 30% in the typical compared French town. There were 410 households locally at the 2023 Census, home to 1,402 residents. Single-parent households: 6% of the total. Compared with other places, second homes are scarce here: 0.7%, fewer than in 89% 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 Ouges
A young town
Half of Ouges’ residents are under 28.6 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 12% are under 15 and 17% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Faster growth than 67% of compared French towns: Ouges changed by +9% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Côte-d'Or town −2%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +19%; from 2017 to 2023, −8%.
Ouges ranks above 99% of compared French towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 33%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Ouges 28.6. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over; in Ouges, 17%. The usual figure: 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
44% women, 56% men
About 77 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Côte-d'Or 52.8%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 74% of compared French towns, at 30%
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
Couples with children: 29% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 2.2 people on average.
Only 6.9% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Ouges
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
Nearly one in ten households have no car; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. In Ouges, 4.4% of homes stand empty. Households in social housing: 12% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
A median of €28,010 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 €28,010 a year: higher than in 71% of compared French towns.
In Ouges, 14% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 74% 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
With households headed by a manual worker at 12%, Ouges is behind 64% of compared French towns on that count. Households headed by a manager or professional make up 9.4% in the typical compared French town. About one in three: that is how common households headed by a retired person are in Ouges (33%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer foreign nationals than 82% of compared French towns: 1.8%
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 70% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Côte-d'Or has 7.3%. In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 31% of residents 15 and over are married in Ouges
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
25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town, against 38% in Ouges. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
More graduates of higher education than 60% of compared French towns: 33%
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
Compared with 19% in the typical compared French town, 17% of adults out of school have no qualification here. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
The youngest of 41 French towns of 1,402 to 2,582 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.
At the ends of the range sit Ouges (28.6), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Ouges is younger than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ouges | 28.6 | 17% | 0.7% | 4.3% |
| Longvic 8,896 · 2 mi | 42.1 | 22% | 1.5% | 14% |
| Neuilly-Crimolois 3,588 · 2.2 mi | 37.2 | 18% | 0.4% | 7.7% |
| Marsannay-la-Côte 5,433 · 3.6 mi | 45 | 24% | 1.1% | 7.7% |
| Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur 11,108 · 3.7 mi | 43.3 | 23% | 1.2% | 7.2% |
| Chenôve 14,244 · 3.8 mi | 41 | 20% | 1.2% | 24% |
| Quetigny 8,971 · 4.2 mi | 45.9 | 24% | 1.1% | 13% |
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 Ouges
What is the population of Ouges?
1,402 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (1,285).
How old are Ouges’ residents?
The median age is 28.6, younger than 99% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Ouges?
3, with occasional dwellings: 0.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Ouges?
INSEE counts 60 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.3% of residents, and 25 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Ouges?
€28,010 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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