A smaller share of flats than 99% of compared French towns: 0.8%
Compared with 12% in the typical compared French town, 1.9% of households rent social housing (HLM) here. More couples with children than in 82% of compared French towns: 32%. At the 2023 Census Chocques was home to 2,785 people in 1,210 households. The share of households headed by a manager or professional stands at 5.9%.
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 Chocques
Fewer residents than in 2012
Chocques had 2,976 residents at the 2012 census and 2,785 in 2023, down 6%: slower growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Chocques changed by −6% from 2012 to 2023, behind 92% 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 Pas-de-Calais town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −3% and the next six −3%.
Chocques is younger than 55% of compared French towns: a median age of 43.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Chocques 43.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 12%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Across Chocques, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
A smaller share of one-person households than 73% of compared French towns: 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
By its share of single-parent households (8.3%), Chocques is below 77% of compared French towns. To put it in context, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 2.3 people.
Chocques ranks above 65% of compared French towns on empty homes: 8.1%
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
Without a car: one household in 11, against 11% in the median compared French town. For empty homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.7%. In Chocques, 1.2% of homes are second homes. On households without a car, Chocques sits lower than nearly three fifths of compared French towns: 9%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €22,840 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 €22,840 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 83% of compared French towns. Residents below the poverty line make up 16.0%.
In Chocques, 18% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 74% 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 retired person: 33% of the total. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Chocques, 0.9% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 99% 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: 0.5% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 60% of compared French towns, at 24%
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
Married residents account for 44%. Elsewhere, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 71% of compared French towns: 24% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
21% of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification.
8th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 2,761 to 2,811
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 La Fère (39.7), the youngest, and Argelès-Gazost (59.7), the oldest.
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Chocques
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 Chocques
What is the population of Chocques?
2,785 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% fewer than in 2012 (2,976).
How old are Chocques’ residents?
The median age is 43.4, younger than 55% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chocques?
15, with occasional dwellings: 1.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chocques?
INSEE counts 25 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.9% of residents, and 15 foreign nationals (0.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chocques?
€22,840 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 16.0% 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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