17% of homes are second homes, a share 92% of compared French towns don’t reach
Here 4.8% of households have no car, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. There were 190 households in Éguelshardt at the 2023 Census, home to 440 residents. Flats account for 5.8%. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 30%, fewer than in nearly four fifths 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 Éguelshardt
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 42 second homes and occasional dwellings in Éguelshardt, 17% of its 240 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 95% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Éguelshardt ranks below 70% of compared French towns on empty homes: 5.3%
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
Turnover: 7.4% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 23% have lived in their home 30 years or more. The comparison figure for empty homes is 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
−1% since 2012, a pace below 75% 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 −4%, and from 2017 to 2023 +3%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Moselle town −1%.
7.6% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 95% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Éguelshardt 45.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 21%, below 60% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 31%, a higher share than 79% of compared French towns
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
The figure for single-parent households is 7.9% in Éguelshardt and 10% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.2 people.
€23,290 a year: the median standard of living
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 residents live in households above €23,290 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 79% of compared French towns.
5.3% of households are headed by a manager or professional, below 84% of compared French towns
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
Where nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, Éguelshardt has 35%. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manager or professional come to 9.4%. About one in five: that is how common households headed by a manual worker are in Éguelshardt (19%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 74% of compared French towns: 3.9%
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.
3.6% of residents are foreign nationals, fewer than in 56% of compared French towns. Against that, 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.
Above 96% of compared French towns: 52% of residents 15 and over are married
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
Single residents: 22% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%.
A smaller share of adults with no qualification than 75% of compared French towns: 15%
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
25% of Éguelshardt’s residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 15% have no diploma (19%).
21st highest median age among 41 French towns of 440 to 2,582
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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Éguelshardt sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Éguelshardt | 45.5 | 21% | 17% | 3.9% |
| Bitche 4,966 · 3.9 mi | 41 | 23% | 3.1% | 9.9% |
| Niederbronn-les-Bains 4,347 · 7.9 mi | 50.9 | 28% | 5.3% | 5.7% |
| Reichshoffen 5,418 · 9.6 mi | 47.3 | 25% | 1.6% | 9.1% |
| Ingwiller 3,995 · 10 mi | 46 | 26% | 2.1% | 5.6% |
| Gundershoffen 3,834 · 11 mi | 43.6 | 20% | 1.1% | 6.7% |
| Val-de-Moder 5,102 · 13 mi | 44.9 | 22% | 1.1% | 6.3% |
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 Éguelshardt
What is the population of Éguelshardt?
440 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (445).
How old are Éguelshardt’s residents?
The median age is 45.5, older than 60% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Éguelshardt?
42, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Éguelshardt?
INSEE counts 17 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.9% of residents, and 16 foreign nationals (3.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Éguelshardt?
€23,290 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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