A median age of 37.7: Avoudrey is younger than 89% of compared French towns
Households headed by a manager or professional: 4.8% here and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, households in social housing are scarce here: 2.9%, fewer than in 94% of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 982 residents in Avoudrey, living in 430 households. For Avoudrey, the census puts one-person households at 31%.
Throughout this page, the Doubs 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 Avoudrey
A young town
Half of Avoudrey’s residents are under 37.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 22% are under 15 and 19% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +12% change since 2012: Avoudrey grew faster than 75% 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
Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Doubs town −1%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +4%; from 2017 to 2023, +8%.
In Avoudrey, 8.6% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 87% 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
■ Avoudrey 37.7. The median compared French town: 44.
22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, against 19% in Avoudrey. Elsewhere, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 27%, a higher share than 57% 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 Doubs median and the France median
Living alone · share
Just over one in ten households are single parents (typical compared French town: 10%). The benchmark for couples with children in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Avoudrey ranks below 73% of compared French towns on households without a car: 7%
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
One household in 14 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Avoudrey has more second homes than 72% of compared French towns, at 4.1%. Newcomers of less than two years account for 13% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 24%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €28,560 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.
At €28,560 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 75% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker make up 20% in Avoudrey, more than in 85% 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
Here 37% of households are headed by a retired person, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 32%. The share of households headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town is 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 85% of compared French towns: 2.6%
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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 2.5% of residents are foreign nationals in Avoudrey. By way of comparison, 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.
22% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 80% of compared French towns
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
Locally, 43% of residents 15 and over are married. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
28% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 56% of compared French towns
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
Locally, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification. The share of graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town is 30%.
Ranked by age, 2nd 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.
Avoudrey sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Avoudrey
What is the population of Avoudrey?
982 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% more than in 2012 (876).
How old are Avoudrey’s residents?
The median age is 37.7, younger than 89% of compared French towns. 25% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Avoudrey?
20, with occasional dwellings: 4.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Avoudrey?
INSEE counts 26 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 25 foreign nationals (2.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Avoudrey?
€28,560 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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