A higher share of couples with children than 97% of compared French towns, at 37%
The share of households headed by a retired person is 62%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Here, 18% of residents are 15 to 24. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Bavelincourt had 104 residents in 40 households at the 2023 census.
Throughout this page, the Somme 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 Bavelincourt
Fewer residents than in 2012
Bavelincourt had 133 residents at the 2012 census and 104 in 2023, down 22%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A town of families
37% of households are couples with children and 12% single parents with children; 15% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
A young town
Half of Bavelincourt’s residents are under 37.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 15% are under 15 and 15% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 8 homes empty (17%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A −22% change since 2012: slower than 99% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −20%, then −2% to 2023. Over those years, the median Somme town changed −3% and the median compared French town +5%.
Younger than 90% of compared French towns: half of Bavelincourt is under 37.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bavelincourt 37.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Where 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Bavelincourt has 15%.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 94% of compared French towns, at 25%
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 Somme median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 2.6 people in the average household. The benchmark for one-person households in the typical compared French town: 35%. Few places have as many single-parent households: 12% here, more than in 83% of compared French towns.
In Bavelincourt, 17% of homes stand empty, more than in 97% of compared French towns
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
Second homes are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, empty homes come to 6.7%. About one in 16: that is how common flats are in Bavelincourt (6.3%).
Median living standard: €24,690 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 €24,690 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 64% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a manager or professional than 66% of compared French towns: 12%
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 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town, Bavelincourt has 12%. Elsewhere, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Bavelincourt, 1.9% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 93% 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 Bavelincourt, 1% of residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 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: 27%, a higher share than 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
Married residents account for 43%. The usual figure: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
14% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 76% 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
The share of graduates of higher education tops just over two thirds of compared French towns: 36%. Against that, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 2nd 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Bavelincourt is younger than every town around it
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 Bavelincourt
What is the population of Bavelincourt?
104 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 22% fewer than in 2012 (133).
How old are Bavelincourt’s residents?
The median age is 37.5, younger than 90% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bavelincourt?
0, with occasional dwellings: 0% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bavelincourt?
INSEE counts 2 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.9% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bavelincourt?
€24,690 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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