A higher share of couples with children than 99% of compared French towns, at 46%
In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%; Doignies has 4.8%. Households headed by a manual worker are more common here than in 92% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 325, in 130 households. Locally, 0.7% of homes are second homes.
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 Doignies
A town of families
46% of households are couples with children and 3.8% single parents with children; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A young town
Half of Doignies’ residents are under 36.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 22% are under 15 and 13% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
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 Doignies: +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
Here the change came as +4% to 2017, then −2% to 2023. Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, ±0% in Nord.
Younger than 92% of compared French towns: half of Doignies is under 36.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Doignies 36.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 13%, below 97% of compared French towns. Put another way, about one in ten: 10% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 99% of compared French towns: 20%
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 figure for single-parent households is 3.8% in Doignies and 10% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. On average, 2.6 people share a household.
Doignies ranks above 69% of compared French towns on empty homes: 8.6%
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
Of all households, 2.4% moved in during the last two years and 17% have stayed three decades or more. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, empty homes come to 6.7%.
Median living standard: €26,270 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 median standard of living in Doignies is €26,270 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 53% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 3.8%, a lower share than 94% 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 retired person is 23%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Doignies ranks below 99% of compared French towns on immigrants: 0.6%
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.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Below 93% of compared French towns: 20% of residents 15 and over are single
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Doignies has 40%. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
17% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 60% 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
About one in three: that is how common graduates of higher education are in Doignies (31%). Across the comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The youngest of 41 French towns of 325 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.
Doignies is the youngest (36.9); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Every neighbor is older than Doignies
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 Doignies
What is the population of Doignies?
325 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (319).
How old are Doignies’ residents?
The median age is 36.9, younger than 92% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Doignies?
1, with occasional dwellings: 0.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Doignies?
INSEE counts 2 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.6% of residents, and 0 foreign nationals (0%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Doignies?
€26,270 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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