Anstaing ranks below 96% of compared French towns on empty homes: 2.8%
16% of residents are 65 or over (typical compared French town: 22%). For Anstaing, the census puts flats at 10%. Households headed by a manager or professional are more common here than in 92% of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 1,631 residents here, living in 660 households.
Throughout this page, the Nord 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 Anstaing
Growing fast
Anstaing had 1,339 residents at the 2012 census and 1,631 in 2023, up 22%: faster growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many graduates
50% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 22% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Anstaing has grown +22%, faster than 92% 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 Nord town changed ±0% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +10%, then +11% to 2023.
Younger than 77% of compared French towns: half of Anstaing is under 40.3
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Anstaing 40.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Here just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 94% of compared French towns, at 25%
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 Nord median and the France median
Living alone · share
Couples with children: 32%, above 83% of compared French towns. Across Anstaing, 14% of households are single parents. In the typical compared French town, one-person households come to 35%.
7.1% of households have no car, fewer than in 72% 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
In the last two years, 7% of households moved in; at the other end, 20% have stayed 30 years or more. Second homes are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The wider picture: just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Compared with 12% in the typical compared French town, one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) here.
A median standard of living of €31,400 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €31,400 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 89% of compared French towns.
In Anstaing, 25% of households are headed by a retired person, fewer than in 85% 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
The share of households headed by a manual worker is 12%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Anstaing sits below 74% of compared French towns for immigrants (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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 2.5% of residents are foreign nationals in Anstaing. Immigrants make up 6.5% 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 87% of compared French towns: 49% 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
Where a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town, Anstaing has 23%. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Above 93% of compared French towns: 50% 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
11% of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
The 4th youngest of 41 French towns of 1,631 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Anstaing sits below 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anstaing | 40.3 | 16% | 0% | 3.9% |
| Chéreng 3,078 · 0.9 mi | 45.8 | 23% | 0.7% | 2.9% |
| Sainghin-en-Mélantois 2,840 · 1.6 mi | 44 | 22% | 1.5% | 2.7% |
| Baisieux 5,545 · 2.3 mi | 39.4 | 16% | 0.5% | 4.4% |
| Willems 2,941 · 2.7 mi | 42.8 | 20% | 0.4% | 3.2% |
| Villeneuve-d'Ascq 62,868 · 2.7 mi | 34.1 | 15% | 3.2% | 16% |
| Cysoing 4,839 · 2.9 mi | 44.1 | 22% | 1.4% | 3.3% |
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 Anstaing
What is the population of Anstaing?
1,631 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 22% more than in 2012 (1,339).
How old are Anstaing’s residents?
The median age is 40.3, younger than 77% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Anstaing?
0, with occasional dwellings: 0% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Anstaing?
INSEE counts 64 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.9% of residents, and 41 foreign nationals (2.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Anstaing?
€31,400 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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