In Dombras, 3.4% of homes are flats, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns
The figure for one-person households is 27% in Dombras and 35% in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in eight: 13% of residents are 15 to 24. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 140 residents and 60 households here.
Throughout this page, the Meuse 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 Dombras
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 14 second homes and occasional dwellings in Dombras, 16% of its 87 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Empty homes
The census found 13 homes empty (15%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes make up 16% in Dombras, more than in 92% 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
With households without a car at 8.3%, Dombras is behind 64% of compared French towns on that count. The comparison figure for second homes is 2.1% in the typical compared French town. The share of empty homes stands at 15%.
Since 2012, Dombras has grown +7%, faster than 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
Over those years, the median Meuse town changed −8% and the median compared French town +5%.
Dombras is younger than 76% of compared French towns: a median age of 40.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Dombras 40.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Dombras has 24%.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 115 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Meuse 52.5%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of couples with children than 61% of compared French towns, at 27%
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 Meuse median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.3 people. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €23,070 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.
Half of Dombras’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €23,070 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 81% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a manual worker than 75% of compared French towns: 18%
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for households headed by a manual worker is 14% in the typical compared French town. About one in three: that is how common households headed by a retired person are in Dombras (36%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 7.1% in Dombras, more than in 70% 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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in just over half of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Meuse has 7.3%. In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals. 6.4% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 92% of compared French towns: 20%
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
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Dombras comes in at 48%. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 12% 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
The figure for adults with no qualification is 28% in Dombras and 19% in the typical compared French town. The share of graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town is 30%.
The 4th youngest of 41 French towns of 140 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.
Around Dombras, 5 of 6 towns have a higher 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 Dombras
What is the population of Dombras?
140 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (131).
How old are Dombras’ residents?
The median age is 40.5, younger than 76% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Dombras?
14, with occasional dwellings: 16% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Dombras?
INSEE counts 9 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.4% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (7.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Dombras?
€23,070 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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