Bondues sits above 96% of compared French towns for households headed by a manager or professional (28%)
One-person households are rarer here than in 86% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 9,747 residents and 4,050 households in Bondues. Put another way, about one in 29: 3.4% of homes stand empty. 6.1% of households have no car, against 11% in the typical compared French town.
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 Bondues
Many graduates
60% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 29% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A −1% change since 2012: slower than 73% 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 the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Nord town ±0%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +3%; from 2017 to 2023, −4%.
Bondues is older than 70% of compared French towns: a median age of 47.1
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bondues 47.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Here a quarter of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%. The census found that one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in Bondues.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Bondues sits above 79% of compared French towns for couples with children (31%)
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
Households average 2.4 people. Set beside that, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Nearly one in ten households are single parents, a lower share than in 68% of compared French towns.
Bondues ranks below 75% of compared French towns on flats: 16%
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
Households that moved in under two years ago: 7.7%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 24%. 0.7% of homes are second homes, a lower share than in 92% of compared French towns. The figure for households in social housing is 14% in Bondues and 12% in the typical compared French town.
Half above, half below €38,630 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.
Living standards centre on €38,630 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 98% of compared French towns. 7.0% of residents have a standard of living below 60% of France’s median.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 98% of compared French towns: 3.8%
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 retired person: 37%, above 73% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 78% of compared French towns, at 3.4%
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.
In Bondues, 2.3% of residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. 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.
56% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
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, Bondues has 21%. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
Graduates of higher education make up 60% in Bondues, more than in 98% of compared French towns
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%). For comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 9,566 to 9,922 people, the 13th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Montlhéry (34.7), the youngest, and Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque (54.6), the oldest.
No nearby town is as old as Bondues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bondues | 47.1 | 25% | 0.7% | 3.4% |
| Mouvaux 13,369 · 1.9 mi | 43.2 | 22% | 1.6% | 5.2% |
| Linselles 8,161 · 2.2 mi | 45.2 | 23% | 0.4% | 3.4% |
| Wambrechies 11,012 · 2.4 mi | 41.3 | 20% | 0.8% | 4% |
| Wasquehal 20,726 · 2.7 mi | 40.2 | 20% | 0.7% | 7.5% |
| Roncq 14,075 · 2.8 mi | 41.7 | 20% | 0.3% | 5.7% |
| Marcq-en-Barœul 40,184 · 2.9 mi | 41.4 | 20% | 1.3% | 8% |
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 Bondues
What is the population of Bondues?
9,747 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (9,828).
How old are Bondues’ residents?
The median age is 47.1, older than 70% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bondues?
28, with occasional dwellings: 0.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bondues?
INSEE counts 340 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.4% of residents, and 220 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bondues?
€38,630 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 7.0% 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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