Photo: JackyM59 · CC BY-SA 3.04.7% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 88% of compared French towns
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 26% of residents are 65 or over in Bouchain. In 2023, the Census found 4,113 residents here, living in 1,810 households. The census found that 14% of homes are flats here. Second homes are rarer here than in just over four fifths 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.
Slower than most: +3% since 2012, behind 57% 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 whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Nord town ±0%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought −1%; 2017 to 2023, +4%.
Bouchain is older than 63% of compared French towns: a median age of 46
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bouchain 46. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up about one in nine here (11%).
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%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Bouchain, 12% of households are single parents, more than in 73% 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
The share of couples with children trails 58% of compared French towns: 24%. A household here holds 2.2 people on average. Just over a third of households are one person living alone, a lower share than in 53% of compared French towns. The benchmark for single-parent households in the typical compared French town: 10%.
More households without a car than 67% of compared French towns: 15%
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 seven has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. For Bouchain, the census puts households in social housing at 16%. Few places have so few empty homes: 5.5% here, fewer than in two thirds of compared French towns.
Median standard of living: €23,250 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.
Living standards centre on €23,250 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 79% of compared French towns. Under the poverty line sit 17.0% of residents.
Bouchain: 41% of households are headed by a retired person, above 86% 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 manual worker: 17% here and 14% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, nearly a third 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).
Immigrants: 2.2%, a lower share than 90% 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.
In the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals is 4.3%; Bouchain has 1%. 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.
Bouchain sits below 65% of compared French towns for single residents (24%)
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
Married residents come to 42% in Bouchain, about four in ten. For comparison, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 83% 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
Set against 19% in the typical compared French town, 23% of adults out of school have no qualification in Bouchain. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 4,079 to 4,146 people: this is the 19th 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 Survilliers (35.6), the youngest, and Domfront en Poiraie (57.7), the oldest.
Every neighbor is younger than Bouchain
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouchain | 46 | 26% | 1% | 2.2% |
| Neuville-sur-Escaut 2,901 · 1.9 mi | 38.3 | 18% | 0.4% | 2.1% |
| Rœulx 3,743 · 2 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 0.3% | 2.2% |
| Lourches 3,734 · 2.8 mi | 35.1 | 15% | 0.5% | 8.2% |
| Iwuy 3,403 · 3.5 mi | 38.2 | 18% | 1.1% | 1.9% |
| Abscon 4,108 · 3.5 mi | 42.4 | 21% | 0.2% | 1.8% |
| Douchy-les-Mines 10,109 · 3.6 mi | 38.6 | 18% | 0.4% | 5.3% |
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 Bouchain
What is the population of Bouchain?
4,113 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (3,995).
How old are Bouchain’s residents?
The median age is 46, older than 63% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bouchain?
19, with occasional dwellings: 1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bouchain?
INSEE counts 89 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.2% of residents, and 42 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bouchain?
€23,250 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 17.0% 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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