A lower share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns, at 2.6%
Compared with 32% in the typical compared French town, 17% of households are headed by a retired person here. On the census count, 13% of households are single parents. 9.5% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 73% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 308 residents and 110 households in Barastre.
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 Barastre
A young town
Half of Barastre’s residents are under 38.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are under 15 and 16% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Barastre grew +12% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 74% 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 years 2012 to 2017 brought +11%; 2017 to 2023, ±0%. Over the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Pas-de-Calais town −1%.
A median age of 38.2: Barastre is younger than 87% 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
■ Barastre 38.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 16% of residents are 65 or over in Barastre.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Barastre ranks above 81% of compared French towns on couples with children: 31%
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
With one-person households at 30%, Barastre is behind nearly four fifths of compared French towns on that count. Couples with children: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Average household size: 2.7 people.
Fewer households in social housing than 99% of compared French towns: 0.8%
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
Nothing unusual on second homes: 1.5%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, households in social housing come to 12%. The census found that 8.5% of homes stand empty in Barastre.
Median standard of living: €23,800 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 €23,800 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 74% of compared French towns.
Barastre sits above 97% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (26%)
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
With households headed by a manager or professional at 4.2%, Barastre is behind 91% of compared French towns on that count. Elsewhere, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 1.6%, a lower share than 96% 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.
Here 0.3% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. 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.
Single residents make up 27% in Barastre, more than in 64% 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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 44% in Barastre. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 72% of compared French towns: 15%
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 come to 30% in Barastre, about three in ten. Elsewhere, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 308 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.
No nearby town is as young as Barastre
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 Barastre
What is the population of Barastre?
308 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% more than in 2012 (276).
How old are Barastre’s residents?
The median age is 38.2, younger than 87% of compared French towns. 30% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Barastre?
2, with occasional dwellings: 1.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Barastre?
INSEE counts 5 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.6% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (0.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Barastre?
€23,800 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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