A smaller share of households in social housing than 99% of compared French towns: 1%
Nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. At the 2023 Census, 1,828 people lived in Distroff, in 740 households. Households without a car: 5.4% of the total. Flats are rarer here than in 75% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Moselle 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 Distroff
A town of families
35% of households are couples with children and 7.6% single parents with children; 19% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Distroff has grown +12%, faster than 74% 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 Moselle town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +8%, then +3% to 2023.
Younger than 53% of compared French towns: half of Distroff is under 43.6
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Distroff 43.6. The median compared French town: 44.
On the census count, 21% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
More couples with children than 92% of compared French towns: 35%
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 Moselle median and the France median
Living alone · share
By its share of one-person households (25%), Distroff is below 94% of compared French towns. Lower than in 84% of compared French towns: 7.6% of households are single parents. Average household size: 2.4 people.
Fewer second homes than 99% of compared French towns: 0.3%
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
Households that moved in under two years ago: 4.3%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 27%. 7.1% of homes stand empty, a higher share than in 54% of compared French towns. Typically, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Without a car: one household in 19, against 11% in the median compared French town.
€31,970 a year is the median standard of living here
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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €31,970 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 91% of compared French towns.
Above 70% of compared French towns: 13% of households are headed by a manager or professional
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
Just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, against 14% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town. Census figures put households headed by a retired person at 32% in Distroff.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 72% of compared French towns: 4.2% 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.
The figure for foreign nationals is 2.3% in Distroff and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 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.
Single residents: 19%, a lower share than 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
Married residents make up 48%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Distroff sits below 86% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (13%)
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 share of graduates of higher education is 36%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, adults with no qualification come to 19%.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,828 to 2,582 people), the 15th youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 3 are older than Distroff
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 Distroff
What is the population of Distroff?
1,828 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% more than in 2012 (1,639).
How old are Distroff’s residents?
The median age is 43.6, younger than 53% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Distroff?
2, with occasional dwellings: 0.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Distroff?
INSEE counts 77 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.2% of residents, and 42 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Distroff?
€31,970 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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