Flats: 0.9%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
The share of households without a car is 3.8%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. The median age in Fampoux is 40.5, lower than in just over three quarters of compared French towns. There were 490 households in the town at the 2023 Census, home to 1,267 residents. In Fampoux, 21% of households are one person living alone.
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 Fampoux
A town of families
36% of households are couples with children and 9.9% single parents with children; 20% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Fampoux grew +11% from 2012 to 2023, ahead of 73% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, −1% in Pas-de-Calais. Here the change came as +4% to 2017, then +7% to 2023.
Only 16% of residents are 65 or over in Fampoux
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Fampoux 40.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Put another way, about one in nine: just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24. Against that, 22% of residents are 65 or over 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: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
36% of households are couples with children, a share 95% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
The typical household size is 2.6 people. 9.9% of households are single parents. Couples with children make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of households in social housing than 87% of compared French towns: 4.8%
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
The share of second homes trails 91% of compared French towns: 0.7%. On average, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. 4.6% of homes stand empty, or about one in 22.
Standard of living at the median: €28,320 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €28,320 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 73% of compared French towns.
26% of households are headed by a retired person, below 81% 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
Where 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town, Fampoux has 14%. By contrast, on households headed by a manual worker, Fampoux sits lower than 77% of compared French towns: 10%. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.6% of residents are immigrants in Fampoux
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 median compared commune in Pas-de-Calais has 1.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 96% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. On the census count, 0.7% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Fewer single residents than 89% of compared French towns: 20%
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, 47% of residents 15 and over are married in Fampoux. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of adults with no qualification than 96% of compared French towns: 9.7%
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
42% of Fampoux’s residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 9.7% have no diploma (19%).
Ranked by age, 4th youngest of 41 French towns this size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Fampoux is younger than 4 of its 6 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fampoux | 40.5 | 16% | 0.7% | 1.6% |
| Saint-Laurent-Blangy 6,459 · 3 mi | 42.2 | 21% | 0.6% | 3.1% |
| Biache-Saint-Vaast 4,568 · 3.4 mi | 38.5 | 17% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Saint-Nicolas 4,494 · 3.8 mi | 43.9 | 24% | 0.6% | 5.1% |
| Beaurains 5,559 · 4.6 mi | 43 | 20% | 0.4% | 2.4% |
| Arras 42,875 · 4.6 mi | 36.3 | 18% | 1.8% | 8.5% |
| Sainte-Catherine 3,471 · 4.8 mi | 47 | 24% | 0.4% | 2.7% |
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 Fampoux
What is the population of Fampoux?
1,267 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% more than in 2012 (1,140).
How old are Fampoux’s residents?
The median age is 40.5, younger than 76% of compared French towns. 25% are under 18 and 16% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Fampoux?
4, with occasional dwellings: 0.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Fampoux?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.6% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (0.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Fampoux?
€28,320 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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