Royaucourt ranks below 99% of compared French towns on one-person households: 18%
Here 15% of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%. 6% of homes are second homes, or about one in 17. Compared with other places, households without a car are scarce here: 3.5%, fewer than in 97% of compared French towns. Royaucourt counted 215 residents and 85 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Oise 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 Royaucourt
A town of families
35% of households are couples with children and 0% single parents with children; 18% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
+3% since 2012, a pace below 58% 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 Oise town changed +2% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought ±0% and the next six +3%.
Royaucourt is younger than 77% of compared French towns: a median age of 40.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Royaucourt 40.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Nothing unusual on residents aged 15 to 24: 11%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Oise 51.7%, France 51.8%.
Above 93% of compared French towns: 35% of households are couples with children
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 Oise median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. For comparison, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Each household has 2.5 people on average.
Fewer households in social housing than 98% of compared French towns: 1.2%
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
Set against 6.7% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten homes stand empty in Royaucourt. The wider picture: just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. 4.7% of households arrived within the last two years, while 19% have stayed 30 years or more. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Standard of living at the median: €26,190 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.
Living standards centre on €26,190 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 41%, a higher share than 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 make up 12%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, 32% 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).
Royaucourt ranks below 97% of compared French towns on immigrants: 1.4%
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 figure for foreign nationals is 2.8% in Royaucourt and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 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.
Royaucourt ranks below 95% of compared French towns on single residents: 19%
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
The figure for married residents is 46% in Royaucourt and 43% in the typical compared French town. Typically, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
More adults with no qualification than 72% of compared French towns: 23%
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
Here 25% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. In the typical compared French town, adults with no qualification come to 19%.
4th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 215 to 2,582
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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Royaucourt is younger than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royaucourt | 40.4 | 15% | 6% | 1.4% |
| Montdidier 5,935 · 3.3 mi | 46.3 | 25% | 1.8% | 2.3% |
| Saint-Just-en-Chaussée 5,810 · 8.5 mi | 41.2 | 20% | 0.7% | 6.6% |
| Breteuil 4,222 · 10.9 mi | 42.7 | 23% | 1.3% | 2.8% |
| Moreuil 3,936 · 11.7 mi | 43.9 | 23% | 3% | 1.1% |
| Ailly-sur-Noye 2,648 · 12.5 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Roye 5,833 · 13 mi | 42.8 | 22% | 2.1% | 3.7% |
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 Royaucourt
What is the population of Royaucourt?
215 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% more than in 2012 (209).
How old are Royaucourt’s residents?
The median age is 40.4, younger than 77% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Royaucourt?
6, with occasional dwellings: 6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Royaucourt?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.4% of residents, and 6 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Royaucourt?
€26,190 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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