Fewer households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 2.2%
Compared with 14% in the typical compared French town, 28% of households are headed by a manual worker here. Locally, nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24. Higher than in 84% of compared French towns: 7.6% of homes are second homes. In 2023, the Census found 200 residents in Beaumont-Hamel, living in 89 households.
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 Beaumont-Hamel
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 0% single parents with children; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Beaumont-Hamel changed by +4% from 2012 to 2023, behind 55% 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, −3% in Somme. Here the change came as +11% to 2017, then −7% to 2023.
Beaumont-Hamel is younger than 69% of compared French towns: a median age of 41.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Beaumont-Hamel 41.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 20%, below 64% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Somme 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Above 88% of compared French towns: 33% of households are couples with children
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households is 35%; Beaumont-Hamel has 33%. Couples with children make up 25% in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.2 people. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
8.5% of homes stand empty, more than in 69% 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
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Long tenure is the mark of 29% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 5.5% (under two years).
Median standard of living: €26,080 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 Beaumont-Hamel’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,080 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 51% of compared French towns.
39% of households are headed by a retired person, a share 80% of compared French towns don’t reach
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 manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Beaumont-Hamel ranks below 82% of compared French towns on immigrants: 2.9%
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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Beaumont-Hamel comes in at 1.5%. The comparison figure for immigrants is 6.5% 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.
Below 95% of compared French towns: 19% of residents 15 and over are single
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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 45% in Beaumont-Hamel. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 82% of compared French towns: 21%
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 the typical compared French town, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification; in Beaumont-Hamel, 16%. Graduates of higher education: 30% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
The 7th youngest of 41 French towns of 200 to 2,582 people
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).
No nearby town is as young as Beaumont-Hamel
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 Beaumont-Hamel
What is the population of Beaumont-Hamel?
200 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (193).
How old are Beaumont-Hamel’s residents?
The median age is 41.5, younger than 69% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Beaumont-Hamel?
8, with occasional dwellings: 7.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Beaumont-Hamel?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.9% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Beaumont-Hamel?
€26,080 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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