Cysoing ranks above 94% of compared French towns on households headed by a manager or professional: 25%
Single-parent households: 7.1%, below 89% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Cysoing was home to 4,839 people in 2,170 households. The census found that 8.1% of households have no car here. 8.8% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 66% 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 Cysoing
Many graduates
49% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 21% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, 62% of compared French towns grew faster than Cysoing: +2%
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 +4%; from 2017 to 2023, −3%.
More residents aged 15 to 24 than 75% of compared French towns: 12%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cysoing 44.1. The median compared French town: 44.
About one in five: that is how common residents aged 65 and over are in Cysoing (22%). The median age locally is 44.1, higher than in half of compared French towns.
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%.
Cysoing: 27% of households are couples with children, above 61% 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 typical household size is 2.2 people. In the typical compared French town, 25% of households are couples with children. The share of one-person households stands at 34%.
Fewer flats than 66% of compared French towns: 21%
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
Second homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 1.4%. Measured more widely, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. Empty homes: 5.8% of the total.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €30,060 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 Cysoing’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €30,060 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 85% of compared French towns. The poverty rate is 7.0%.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 79% of compared French towns: 9.5%
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
With households headed by a retired person at 30%, Cysoing is behind 66% of compared French towns on that count. On average, 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).
Cysoing sits below 79% of compared French towns for immigrants (3.3%)
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.
The median compared commune in Nord has 4.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in nearly four fifths of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The census found that 2% of residents are foreign nationals in Cysoing.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Fewer married residents than 60% of compared French towns: 42%
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
A quarter of residents 15 and over are single. In the median compared French town 43% are married and 6.1% in a PACS; here it is 42% and 8.6%, and 6.2% are widowed.
Cysoing sits above 92% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (49%)
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
Adults with no qualification: 14%, below 80% of compared French towns. Graduates of higher education: 30% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Of 41 French towns its size (4,804 to 4,876 people), the 15th youngest
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 Rosières-près-Troyes (32.7), the youngest, and Quiberon (63.9), the oldest.
1 of 6 neighbors are older than Cysoing
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cysoing | 44.1 | 22% | 1.4% | 3.3% |
| Sainghin-en-Mélantois 2,840 · 2.6 mi | 44 | 22% | 1.5% | 2.7% |
| Genech 2,803 · 2.6 mi | 39.9 | 16% | 1.1% | 3.3% |
| Camphin-en-Pévèle 2,518 · 2.8 mi | 41 | 15% | 0.1% | 3.2% |
| Chéreng 3,078 · 3 mi | 45.8 | 23% | 0.7% | 2.9% |
| Templeuve-en-Pévèle 7,202 · 3.3 mi | 43 | 19% | 0.8% | 2.5% |
| Baisieux 5,545 · 3.4 mi | 39.4 | 16% | 0.5% | 4.4% |
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 Cysoing
What is the population of Cysoing?
4,839 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (4,757).
How old are Cysoing’s residents?
The median age is 44.1, older than 50% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cysoing?
34, with occasional dwellings: 1.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cysoing?
INSEE counts 160 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.3% of residents, and 98 foreign nationals (2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cysoing?
€30,060 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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