Households in social housing: 1.4%, a lower share than 98% of compared French towns
Households without a car: 4.5% here and 11% in the typical compared French town. 3.9% of homes are flats, a lower share than in 97% of compared French towns. Joze had 1,183 residents in 510 households at the 2023 census. The census found that 28% of households are one person living alone in the town.
Throughout this page, the Puy-de-Dôme 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 Joze
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 5.9% single parents with children; 17% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Joze’s population changed by +10% since 2012, more than in 71% 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 Puy-de-Dôme town +4%. The change was +3% from 2012 to 2017 and +7% from 2017 to 2023.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 64% of compared French towns: 20%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Joze 43.5. The median compared French town: 44.
The median age in Joze is 43.5, lower than in 54% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town. About one in ten: that is how common residents aged 15 to 24 are in Joze (10%).
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Puy-de-Dôme 52.2%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of couples with children than 88% of compared French towns: 33%
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 Puy-de-Dôme median and the France median
Living alone · share
The figure for single-parent households is 5.9% in Joze and 10% in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.3 people. On average, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Above 83% of compared French towns: 11% of homes stand empty
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
Turnover: 7.5% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 23% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Set beside that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Second homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 2.7%.
A median standard of living of €28,240 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 €28,240 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 73% of compared French towns.
Only 6.9% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Joze
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 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, Joze has 34%. Measured more widely, 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town. The share of households headed by a manual worker stands at 15%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
3% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 82% 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.
In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals; in Joze, 1.8%. Set beside 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.
More married residents than 69% of compared French towns: 46%
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
A quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town, against 23% in Joze. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
15% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 74% 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: 29% of the total. Elsewhere, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
13th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 1,183 to 2,582
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 old as Joze
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 Joze
What is the population of Joze?
1,183 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% more than in 2012 (1,072).
How old are Joze’s residents?
The median age is 43.5, younger than 54% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Joze?
16, with occasional dwellings: 2.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Joze?
INSEE counts 35 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3% of residents, and 21 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Joze?
€28,240 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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