Bettignies sits below 99% of compared French towns for empty homes (1.7%)
In Bettignies, 3.3% of homes are flats, beside 30% in the typical compared French town. At the 2023 Census, 343 people lived here, in 150 households. Households headed by a manual worker account for 20%. Compared with other places, households without a car are scarce here: 5.2%, fewer than in 86% of compared French towns.
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 Bettignies
Immigrants
INSEE counts 100 immigrants in Bettignies (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 33% of residents, against 4.1% for the median compared commune in Nord. 31% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Growing fast
Bettignies had 274 residents at the 2012 census and 343 in 2023, up 25%: faster growth than in 94% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Social housing
32% of households rent from a social landlord (HLM), 11% rent privately and 56% own their home. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Bettignies grew +25% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 94% 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 +13%, then +11% to 2023.
Half of Bettignies is over 45.2, older than 58% 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
■ Bettignies 45.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 here. Residents aged 65 and over: just over a fifth of the total.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 84 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 21%, a lower share than 68% 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 Nord median and the France median
Living alone · share
Compared with 35% in the typical compared French town, 33% of households are one person living alone here. Measured more widely, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. For Bettignies, the census puts single-parent households at 11%.
A higher share of households in social housing than 94% of compared French towns, at 32%
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
One household in 19 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Locally, 2.5% of homes are second homes. Households in social housing: 12% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Standard of living at the median: €21,770 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.
Half of residents live in households above €21,770 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 90% of compared French towns.
34% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 58% 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
Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Bettignies ranks above 99% of compared French towns on immigrants: 33%
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 31% in Bettignies. For comparison, 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.
A higher share of single residents than 82% of compared French towns, at 31%
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
Census figures put married residents at 42% in Bettignies. Set beside that, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 93% of compared French towns: 17%
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, 15% of adults out of school have no qualification in Bettignies. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (343 to 2,582 people), the 21st oldest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Every neighbor is younger than Bettignies
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 Bettignies
What is the population of Bettignies?
343 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 25% more than in 2012 (274).
How old are Bettignies’ residents?
The median age is 45.2, older than 58% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bettignies?
4, with occasional dwellings: 2.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bettignies?
INSEE counts 110 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 33% of residents, and 100 foreign nationals (31%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bettignies?
€21,770 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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