Joncels is older than 98% of compared French towns: a median age of 59.6
The share of households in social housing is 0.8%, against 12% in the typical compared French town. Locally, 3.5% of households are headed by a manager or professional. On couples with children, Joncels sits lower than 99% of compared French towns: 11%. This Hérault town had 256 residents in 140 households at the 2023 census.
Throughout this page, the Hérault 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 Joncels
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 98 second homes and occasional dwellings in Joncels, 39% of its 250 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 86% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Joncels’ residents are under 59.6 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 37% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Joncels had 295 residents at the 2012 census and 256 in 2023, down 13%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Joncels sits above 96% of compared French towns for second homes (39%)
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
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, 12% of homes are flats in Joncels. What’s more, 7.3% of households have no car, fewer than in 71% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Locally, 7.1% of homes stand empty.
Slower growth than 99% of compared French towns: Joncels changed by −13% 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 Hérault town +13%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +6%; from 2017 to 2023, −18%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of compared French towns: 5.7%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Joncels 59.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Joncels has 37%. For comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Above 88% of compared French towns: 13% of households are single parents
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 Hérault median and the France median
Living alone · share
44% of households are one person living alone, against 35% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 1.8 people.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €23,420 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 €23,420 a year: lower than in 78% of compared French towns.
Joncels ranks above 76% of compared French towns on households headed by a retired person: 38%
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
Census figures put households headed by a manual worker at 14% in Joncels. 3.5% of Joncels’ households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 38% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Joncels ranks above 72% of compared French towns on immigrants: 10%
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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten residents are foreign nationals here. Immigrants make up 6.5% 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.
Married residents make up 52% in Joncels, more than in 96% 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
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, nearly a quarter of residents 15 and over are single here. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Below 91% of compared French towns: 18% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
Roughly two in ten: 20% of adults out of school have no qualification. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
The 4th oldest of 41 French towns of 256 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.
No nearby town is as old as Joncels
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joncels | 59.6 | 37% | 39% | 10% |
| Lodève 7,251 · 6.4 mi | 52.3 | 31% | 5.1% | 12% |
| Bédarieux 5,804 · 9.3 mi | 52.4 | 31% | 7.4% | 8.2% |
| Clermont-l'Hérault 9,461 · 14.4 mi | 44.3 | 24% | 3.9% | 8.3% |
| Saint-André-de-Sangonis 6,427 · 17 mi | 41.1 | 19% | 2.2% | 6.1% |
| Canet 3,619 · 17.8 mi | 42.4 | 19% | 3.2% | 4% |
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 Joncels
What is the population of Joncels?
256 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% fewer than in 2012 (295).
How old are Joncels’ residents?
The median age is 59.6, older than 98% of compared French towns. 11% are under 18 and 37% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Joncels?
98, with occasional dwellings: 39% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Joncels?
INSEE counts 27 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 10% of residents, and 21 foreign nationals (8.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Joncels?
€23,420 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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