A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 99% of compared French towns, at 63%
0.8% of households rent social housing (HLM), against 12% in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 73% of compared French towns: 20% of households are couples with children. The 2023 Census put Alincthun’s population at 291, in 130 households. The census found that 4% of homes are second homes in the town.
Throughout this page, the Pas-de-Calais 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 Alincthun
Fewer residents than in 2012
Alincthun had 334 residents at the 2012 census and 291 in 2023, down 13%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Alincthun’s residents are under 52.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.9% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Alincthun changed by −13% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 99% 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 Pas-de-Calais town −1%.
A median age of 52.2: Alincthun is older than 89% 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
■ Alincthun 52.2. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over; in Alincthun, 31%. Put another way, about one in nine: just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Single-parent households: 3.2%, 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 Pas-de-Calais median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%; Alincthun has 33%. The share of single-parent households in the typical compared French town is 10%. Average household size: 2.2 people.
Below 56% of compared French towns: 9.6% of households have no car
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
One household in 10 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. Of all households, 3.1% moved in during the last two years and 38% have stayed three decades or more. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €23,690 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €23,690 a year: lower than in 75% of compared French towns.
14% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 52% 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 manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Alincthun ranks below 99% of compared French towns on immigrants: 0.4%
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.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
58% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
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: 18% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. On average, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
In Alincthun, 28% of adults out of school have no qualification, more than in 86% 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
Graduates of higher education: 21%, below 81% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 8th oldest of 41 French towns of 291 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
No nearby town is as old as Alincthun
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 Alincthun
What is the population of Alincthun?
291 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% fewer than in 2012 (334).
How old are Alincthun’s residents?
The median age is 52.2, older than 89% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Alincthun?
6, with occasional dwellings: 4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Alincthun?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.4% 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 Alincthun?
€23,690 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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