Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST · CC BY 3.0In Meudon, 34% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 98% of compared French towns
Households without a car: 28% here and 11% in the typical compared French town. Census figures put flats at 86% in Meudon. The median age locally is 41, lower than in 73% of compared French towns. The town is home to 46,334 residents in 20,850 households, by the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Hauts-de-Seine 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 Meudon
Immigrants
INSEE counts 8,400 immigrants in Meudon (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 18% of residents, against 18% for the median compared commune in Hauts-de-Seine. 13% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Many graduates
58% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 34% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower than most: +3% since 2012, behind 59% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +1%, and from 2017 to 2023 +2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Hauts-de-Seine town +4%.
Below 77% of compared French towns: 18% of residents are 65 or over
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Meudon 41. The median compared French town: 44.
At 11%, residents aged 15 to 24 sit close to the figure in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hauts-de-Seine 52.4%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of one-person households than 72% of compared French towns, at 41%
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 Hauts-de-Seine median and the France median
Living alone · share
Where a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, Meudon has 27%. The usual figure: just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. There are 2.2 people in the average household.
Meudon ranks above 79% of compared French towns on households in social housing: 21%
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 in ten households arrived within the last two years, while 17% have stayed 30 years or more. In the typical compared French town, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM). Car-free households: one in four, where the median compared French town has 11%.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €34,880 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €34,880 a year: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. The poverty rate is 11.1%.
A smaller share of households headed by a manual worker than 94% of compared French towns: 6.1%
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 retired person is 24% in Meudon and 32% in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 18% in Meudon, more 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Meudon comes in at 13%. Measured more widely, 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.
Meudon ranks above 83% of compared French towns on single residents: 31%
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
Just over two in five residents 15 and over are married. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
58% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, a share 97% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
By its share of adults with no qualification (13%), Meudon is below 86% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 43,526 to 49,385 people, the 17th oldest
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 Talence (30.5), the youngest, and Saint-Malo (53.9), the oldest.
Meudon is younger than 1 of its 6 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meudon | 41 | 18% | 2.1% | 18% |
| Clamart 58,576 · 1.2 mi | 39.6 | 16% | 2.9% | 17% |
| Sèvres 22,303 · 1.7 mi | 42.8 | 19% | 4.2% | 17% |
| Issy-les-Moulineaux 67,669 · 1.8 mi | 37.9 | 14% | 6.6% | 17% |
| Boulogne-Billancourt 119,019 · 2 mi | 39.2 | 17% | 5.9% | 18% |
| Le Plessis-Robinson 28,848 · 2.1 mi | 40.3 | 17% | 1.4% | 11% |
| Chaville 20,594 · 2.2 mi | 38.1 | 15% | 2.8% | 17% |
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 Meudon
What is the population of Meudon?
46,334 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (45,107).
How old are Meudon’s residents?
The median age is 41, younger than 73% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Meudon?
470, with occasional dwellings: 2.1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Meudon?
INSEE counts 8,400 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 18% of residents, and 6,090 foreign nationals (13%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Meudon?
€34,880 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 11.1% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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