Breux-Jouy: 35% of households are couples with children, above 92% of compared French towns
Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). Households without a car: 5.4% of the total. Flats are rarer here than in 84% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Breux-Jouy was home to 1,285 people in 540 households.
Throughout this page, the Essonne 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 Breux-Jouy
A town of families
35% of households are couples with children and 5.6% single parents with children; 18% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 53% of compared French towns: Breux-Jouy 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +1%, then +3% to 2023. Over those years, the median Essonne town changed +6% and the median compared French town +5%.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 67% 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
■ Breux-Jouy 44.2. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Breux-Jouy is 44.2, higher than in just over half of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 22% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Essonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of single-parent households than 97% of compared French towns, at 5.6%
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 Essonne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Where just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Breux-Jouy has 26%. On average, 2.4 people share a household. The share of single-parent households in the typical compared French town is 10%.
Breux-Jouy sits below 86% of compared French towns for households in social housing (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
There is little gap on second homes: 1.2%, about the same as in the typical compared French town. 4.9% of homes stand empty, a lower share than in 76% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM). Turnover: 6.9% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 28% have lived in their home 30 years or more.
Standard of living at the median: €30,160 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.
Living standards centre on €30,160 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 85% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a manager or professional than 93% of compared French towns: 24%
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
The figure for households headed by a manual worker is 12% in Breux-Jouy and 14% in the typical compared French town. About one in three: that is how common households headed by a retired person are in Breux-Jouy (33%). By way of comparison, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
11% of residents are immigrants, more than in 73% 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.
In the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals is 4.3%; Breux-Jouy has 6.1%. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 19% of residents 15 and over are single in Breux-Jouy
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 make up 50%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Breux-Jouy sits above 71% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (36%)
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
Adults with no qualification: 18% of the total. The wider picture: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 16th youngest of 41 French towns of 1,285 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Breux-Jouy is older 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breux-Jouy | 44.2 | 20% | 1.2% | 11% |
| Breuillet 9,157 · 1.1 mi | 39.4 | 16% | 1.3% | 13% |
| Saint-Chéron 5,132 · 1.8 mi | 41.6 | 18% | 13% | 9.8% |
| Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon 3,882 · 2.4 mi | 40.7 | 16% | 2% | 6% |
| Bruyères-le-Châtel 3,788 · 2.6 mi | 40.6 | 17% | 1% | 8.1% |
| Égly 7,166 · 3.5 mi | 35.7 | 14% | 1% | 20% |
| Ollainville 5,455 · 3.9 mi | 36.5 | 12% | 1.2% | 11% |
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 Breux-Jouy
What is the population of Breux-Jouy?
1,285 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (1,233).
How old are Breux-Jouy’s residents?
The median age is 44.2, older than 51% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Breux-Jouy?
7, with occasional dwellings: 1.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Breux-Jouy?
INSEE counts 140 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 11% of residents, and 78 foreign nationals (6.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Breux-Jouy?
€30,160 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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