Tourmignies: 50% of households are couples with children, above 99% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over; in Tourmignies, 15%. 2.3% of homes stand empty, a lower share than in 98% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 936, in 350 households. Flats make up about one in 21 here (4.8%).
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 Tourmignies
A town of families
50% of households are couples with children and 5.4% single parents with children; 22% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing fast
Tourmignies had 738 residents at the 2012 census and 936 in 2023, up 27%: faster growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many graduates
60% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 27% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Tourmignies’s population changed by +27% since 2012, more than in 95% 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
The median Nord town changed ±0% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +20% and the next six +5%.
Younger than 67% of compared French towns: half of Tourmignies is under 41.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Tourmignies 41.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Locally, 11% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 15%, a lower share than 99% 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
10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town, against 5.4% in Tourmignies. Households average 2.7 people. The wider picture: just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Only 3% of households have no car in Tourmignies
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
On second homes, 1.2% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town. At 5%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in 86% of compared French towns. The benchmark for households without a car in the typical compared French town: 11%. In the last two years, 4.1% of households moved in; at the other end, 19% have stayed 30 years or more.
Median living standard: €34,190 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 Tourmignies is €34,190 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 95% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a manager or professional than 96% of compared French towns: 29%
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 trails 69% of compared French towns: 29%. One in ten households are headed by a manual worker, a lower share than in 76% of compared French towns. For households headed by a manager or professional, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
1.7% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 95% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Tourmignies comes in at 0.9%. In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Tourmignies, 54% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 98% of compared French towns
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
Single residents: 19%, below 94% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
60% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, a share 97% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
7.8% 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.
41 French towns of 936 to 2,582 people: this is the 7th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Older than Tourmignies: 4 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Tourmignies
What is the population of Tourmignies?
936 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 27% more than in 2012 (738).
How old are Tourmignies’ residents?
The median age is 41.8, younger than 67% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tourmignies?
4, with occasional dwellings: 1.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tourmignies?
INSEE counts 16 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tourmignies?
€34,190 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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