1.5% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 98% of compared French towns
One-person households: 29% here and 35% in the typical compared French town. Bouclans counted 1,053 residents and 460 households at the 2023 Census. Flats account for 14%. Higher than in 86% of compared French towns: 41% of households are headed by a retired person.
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 Bouclans
Fewer residents than in 2012
Bouclans had 1,099 residents at the 2012 census and 1,053 in 2023, down 4%: slower growth than in 85% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 85% of compared French towns: Bouclans changed by −4% 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
In two steps, −2% to 2017 and −2% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −1% in Doubs.
Bouclans is older than 61% of compared French towns: a median age of 45.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bouclans 45.8. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 10%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. The census found that just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in Bouclans.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Doubs 51.3%, France 51.8%.
In Bouclans, 28% of households are couples with children, more than in 65% 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
The typical household size is 2.3 people. The wider picture: a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. In Bouclans, 8.6% of households are single parents.
6.3% of households have no car, fewer than in 78% 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
One household in 16 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Turnover: 6.9% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 29% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Bouclans has fewer empty homes than 58% of compared French towns, at 6.2%.
Half above, half below €27,710 a year in standard of living
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.
Living standards centre on €27,710 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 68% of compared French towns.
The largest group of households: retired (41%)
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: 8.6% of the total. Few places have as many households headed by a manual worker: 14% here, more than in 51% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 98% of compared French towns: 1.3% of residents 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.
0.8% of residents are foreign nationals (typical compared French town: 4.3%). In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Bouclans, 18% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 98% 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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, just over half of residents 15 and over are married in Bouclans. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Bouclans sits below 76% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (15%)
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
Where 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, Bouclans has 33%. Adults with no qualification make up 19% in the typical compared French town.
The 20th oldest of 41 French towns of 1,053 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Older than Bouclans: 4 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Bouclans
What is the population of Bouclans?
1,053 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (1,099).
How old are Bouclans’ residents?
The median age is 45.8, older than 61% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bouclans?
10, with occasional dwellings: 2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bouclans?
INSEE counts 14 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.3% of residents, and 8 foreign nationals (0.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bouclans?
€27,710 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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