Hames-Boucres sits below 99% of compared French towns for flats (1.4%)
Residents aged 65 and over make up 15%, against 22% in the typical compared French town. At the 2023 Census Hames-Boucres was home to 1,439 people in 580 households. About one in five: that is how common households headed by a manual worker are in Hames-Boucres (21%). Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 26%, fewer than in 90% of compared French towns.
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 Hames-Boucres
A town of families
34% of households are couples with children and 6.8% single parents with children; 19% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Hames-Boucres changed by −1% from 2012 to 2023, behind 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
Above 85% of compared French towns: 13% of residents are 15 to 24
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Hames-Boucres 42.9. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 42.9, Hames-Boucres is younger than nearly three fifths of compared French towns. Set beside that, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pas-de-Calais 52.0%, France 51.8%.
34% of households are couples with children, a share 91% 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
Households here average 2.5 people each. 6.8% of households are single parents, fewer than in 91% of compared French towns. Couples with children: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Above 78% of compared French towns: 5.3% of homes are second homes
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 17 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. Few places have so few households without a car: 6% here, fewer than in 81% of compared French towns. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. Across Hames-Boucres, 5.1% of homes stand empty.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €26,110 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 €26,110 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 51% of compared French towns.
A smaller share of households headed by a retired person than 76% of compared French towns: 27%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manager or professional is 9.4%; Hames-Boucres has 14%. Across the comparison, 32% of households are headed by a retired person 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% of residents are immigrants in Hames-Boucres
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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 0.8% of residents are foreign nationals here. Immigrants make up a share lower than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Pas-de-Calais has 1.7%. Typically, 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.
Hames-Boucres sits above 66% of compared French towns for married residents (45%)
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
The census found that nearly a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in Hames-Boucres. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
A higher share of graduates of higher education than 54% of compared French towns, at 31%
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 Hames-Boucres, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification. As a yardstick, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 10th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Hames-Boucres is younger than 3 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Hames-Boucres
What is the population of Hames-Boucres?
1,439 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (1,455).
How old are Hames-Boucres’ residents?
The median age is 42.9, younger than 59% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Hames-Boucres?
34, with occasional dwellings: 5.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Hames-Boucres?
INSEE counts 15 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1% of residents, and 12 foreign nationals (0.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Hames-Boucres?
€26,110 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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