Above 99% of compared French towns: 40% of households are couples with children
2.6% of households have no car; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. Locally, 0.1% of households rent social housing (HLM). Lower than in 94% of compared French towns: 6.1% of homes are flats. Volstroff’s 790 households held 2,044 residents at the 2023 Census.
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 Volstroff
A town of families
40% of households are couples with children and 10% single parents with children; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
Volstroff had 1,593 residents at the 2012 census and 2,044 in 2023, up 28%: faster growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Volstroff grew +28% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 96% 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 change was +23%; from 2017 to 2023, +4%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Moselle town −1%.
Volstroff sits below 87% of compared French towns for residents aged 65 and over (16%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Volstroff 41.2. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Volstroff is 41.2, lower than in 72% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. On the census count, nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Moselle 51.8%, France 51.8%.
Volstroff ranks below 99% of compared French towns on one-person households: 19%
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
A household here holds 2.6 people on average. Higher than in 54% of compared French towns: 10% of households are single parents. In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%.
3.9% of homes stand empty, below 89% 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
Of all households, 4.4% moved in during the last two years and 24% have stayed three decades or more. 0.5% of homes are second homes, fewer than in 96% of compared French towns. Empty homes make up 6.7% in the typical compared French town.
€32,040 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.
Living standards centre on €32,040 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 91% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a manager or professional than 88% of compared French towns, at 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 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town, Volstroff has 10%. Measured more widely, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a retired person account for 25%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 3.8%, a lower share than 75% 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.
Foreign nationals make up 2.3%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: 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.
18% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 98% 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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, 51% of residents 15 and over are married in Volstroff. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Volstroff sits below 91% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (11%)
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
Here two in five adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. To put it in context, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 5th youngest of 41 French towns of 2,044 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Volstroff is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Volstroff
What is the population of Volstroff?
2,044 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 28% more than in 2012 (1,593).
How old are Volstroff’s residents?
The median age is 41.2, younger than 72% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Volstroff?
4, with occasional dwellings: 0.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Volstroff?
INSEE counts 78 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.8% of residents, and 48 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Volstroff?
€32,040 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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