Above 96% of compared French towns: 37% of households are couples with children
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 379 residents in Villeselve, living in 140 households. On the census count, 1.4% of households have no car. Households in social housing: 5.4%, below 84% of compared French towns.
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 Villeselve
A town of families
37% of households are couples with children and 17% single parents with children; 19% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A young town
Half of Villeselve’s residents are under 38.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 19% are under 15 and 13% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 22 homes empty (13%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Villeselve changed by +1% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 68% 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 compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Oise town +2%. The change was +12% from 2012 to 2017 and −10% from 2017 to 2023.
13% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 97% 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
■ Villeselve 38.4. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 38.4, Villeselve is younger than 87% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. 14% of residents are 15 to 24, or about one in seven.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Oise 51.7%, France 51.8%.
Only 22% of households are one person living alone in Villeselve
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
Each household has 2.6 people on average. At 17%, the share of single-parent households is higher than in 99% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
In Villeselve, 13% of homes stand empty, more than in 91% of compared French towns
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
7.6% of households arrived within the last two years, while 24% have stayed 30 years or more. At 2.3%, the share of second homes is higher than in 53% of compared French towns. The share of empty homes in the typical compared French town is 6.7%.
A median standard of living of €25,040 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 €25,040 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 60% of compared French towns.
Villeselve ranks above 99% of compared French towns on households headed by a manual worker: 58%
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
Set against 32% in the typical compared French town, 21% of households are headed by a retired person in Villeselve. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manual worker come to 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Villeselve sits below 98% of compared French towns for immigrants (1.3%)
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 share of foreign nationals trails 93% of compared French towns: 1%. The comparison figure for immigrants is 6.5% 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.
A larger share of single residents than 59% of compared French towns: 27%
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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, 44% of residents 15 and over are married in Villeselve. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
18% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 90% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%; Villeselve has 22%. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 379 to 2,582 people, the 2nd 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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Villeselve is younger than every town around it
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 Villeselve
What is the population of Villeselve?
379 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (377).
How old are Villeselve’s residents?
The median age is 38.4, younger than 87% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Villeselve?
4, with occasional dwellings: 2.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Villeselve?
INSEE counts 5 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.3% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Villeselve?
€25,040 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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