Households headed by a manager or professional: 5%, a lower share than 86% of compared French towns
The share of residents aged 65 and over trails 71% of compared French towns: 19%. In 2023, the Census found 8,083 residents in Guénange, living in 3,500 households. Households in social housing make up about one in five here (22%). Lower than in 97% of compared French towns: 0.4% of homes are second homes.
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.
Faster growth than 81% of compared French towns: Guénange changed by +15% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +2%, then +12% to 2023. Over those years, the median Moselle town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%.
Guénange is younger than 75% of compared French towns: a median age of 40.7
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Guénange 40.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.4% here and 11% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
More couples with children than 66% of compared French towns: 28%
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
In Guénange, 12% of households are single parents, beside 10% in the typical compared French town. One-person households come to 32% in the town, about three in ten. The wider picture: a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Guénange ranks below 79% of compared French towns on empty homes: 4.7%
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
Of all households, 8.1% moved in during the last two years and 23% have stayed three decades or more. On average, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. One household in 10 has no car (median compared French town: 11%).
Half above, half below €24,940 a year in 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,940 a year: lower than in 61% of compared French towns. 18.0% of residents live below the poverty line INSEE uses.
A larger share of households headed by a manual worker than 82% of compared French towns: 20%
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 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, Guénange has 30%. The benchmark for households headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town: 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 12% in Guénange, more than in 77% 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.
4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, against 6.6% in Guénange. As a yardstick, 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 67% of compared French towns: 45% 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
With single residents at 24%, Guénange is behind 64% of compared French towns on that count. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 71% of compared French towns, at 24%
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
Set against 19% in the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in Guénange. For comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 13th youngest of 41 French towns of 7,973 to 8,202 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.
The youngest is Linas (33.8), the oldest Cavalaire-sur-Mer (57.1).
5 of 6 neighbors are older than Guénange
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 Guénange
What is the population of Guénange?
8,083 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% more than in 2012 (7,057).
How old are Guénange’s residents?
The median age is 40.7, younger than 75% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Guénange?
16, with occasional dwellings: 0.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Guénange?
INSEE counts 940 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 12% of residents, and 540 foreign nationals (6.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Guénange?
€24,940 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 18.0% 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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