Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC BY-SA 4.0Below 90% of compared French towns: 3.7% of homes stand empty
In Wavrin, 16% of homes are flats, beside 30% in the typical compared French town. There were 3,290 households in the town at the 2023 Census, home to 7,758 residents. Roughly three in ten: 29% of households are one person living alone. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 72% 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.
+2% since 2012, a pace below 62% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +1%, then +1% to 2023. Over those years, the median Nord town changed ±0% and the median compared French town +5%.
A median age of 42.3: Wavrin is younger than 63% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Wavrin 42.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%).
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nord 51.9%, France 51.8%.
More couples with children than 72% of compared French towns: 29%
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
Single-parent households make up 12%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
18% of households rent social housing (HLM), a share 72% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Long tenure is the mark of 22% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 6.4% (under two years). Across the comparison, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. 1% of homes are second homes, a lower share than in 81% of compared French towns. Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten households have no car in Wavrin.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €26,660 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 residents live in households above €26,660 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 57% of compared French towns. Poverty touches 12.0% of residents.
In Wavrin, 13% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 70% 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
33% of households are headed by a retired person, or about one in three. Households headed by a manual worker are rarer here than in 58% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 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).
Immigrants make up 2.2% in Wavrin, less than in 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.
Foreign nationals: 1.3% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 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.
Wavrin sits below 61% of compared French towns for married residents (41%)
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
Put another way, about one in four: just over 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 41% and 8.9%, and 5.9% are widowed.
More graduates of higher education than 70% of compared French towns: 36%
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
Where nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town, Wavrin has 17%. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
The 12th youngest of 41 French towns of 7,673 to 7,850 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.
At the ends of the range sit Corte (28.3), the youngest, and Mimizan (56.3), the oldest.
Wavrin is younger than 4 of its 6 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wavrin | 42.3 | 19% | 1% | 2.2% |
| Sainghin-en-Weppes 5,638 · 1.8 mi | 41.2 | 19% | 0.5% | 2.1% |
| Santes 5,652 · 2 mi | 43.7 | 21% | 0.5% | 2% |
| Allennes-les-Marais 3,545 · 2.2 mi | 43.1 | 18% | 0.7% | 2% |
| Houplin-Ancoisne 3,326 · 2.4 mi | 43.4 | 22% | 1.2% | 3.1% |
| Gondecourt 4,148 · 2.5 mi | 43 | 20% | 0.8% | 2.1% |
| Annœullin 10,847 · 2.9 mi | 39.5 | 17% | 0.4% | 3.3% |
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 Wavrin
What is the population of Wavrin?
7,758 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (7,626).
How old are Wavrin’s residents?
The median age is 42.3, younger than 63% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Wavrin?
34, with occasional dwellings: 1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Wavrin?
INSEE counts 170 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.2% of residents, and 100 foreign nationals (1.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Wavrin?
€26,660 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 12.0% 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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