Bonnes ranks below 99% of compared French towns on flats: 0.9%
2.2% of households rent social housing (HLM) (typical compared French town: 12%). Single-parent households make up about one in 31 here (3.2%). Compared with other places, households without a car are scarce here: 5.5%, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 1,688 residents in 780 households.
Throughout this page, the Vienne 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.
A −3% change since 2012: slower than 83% 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
Over those years, the median Vienne town changed +4% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −1%, then −2% to 2023.
Half of Bonnes is over 47.9, older than 74% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bonnes 47.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Bonnes has 9.1%. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 62% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
27% of households are couples with children, more than in 58% of compared French towns
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 Vienne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.2 people each. As a yardstick, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 35%, fewer than in 53% of compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 8.7% of its 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
Without a car: one household in 18, against 11% in the median compared French town. About one in 13: that is how common empty homes are in Bonnes (8%). As a reference point, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €27,210 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €27,210 a year: higher than in 63% of compared French towns.
Only 10% of households are headed by a manual worker in Bonnes
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
With households headed by a retired person at 36%, Bonnes is ahead of 71% of compared French towns on that count. Set beside that, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manager or professional make up about one in eight here (13%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 96% of compared French towns, at 1.5%
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, 0.9% of residents are foreign nationals here. By way of comparison, 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.
Fewer single residents than 92% 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
In Bonnes, nearly half of residents 15 and over are married, beside 43% in the typical compared French town. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Bonnes ranks below 71% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 15%
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 is 33%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,688 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th oldest
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.
Bonnes sits below 1 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnes | 47.9 | 24% | 8.7% | 1.5% |
| Chauvigny 7,007 · 3.8 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 5.2% | 2.7% |
| Saint-Julien-l'Ars 2,880 · 5.8 mi | 43.5 | 20% | 1.5% | 2.5% |
| Valdivienne 2,715 · 7.6 mi | 44.9 | 22% | 8.1% | 1.8% |
| Montamisé 3,723 · 8.4 mi | 44.9 | 22% | 2.5% | 3.2% |
| Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux 4,385 · 10 mi | 44.6 | 21% | 1.5% | 3.1% |
| Mignaloux-Beauvoir 5,229 · 10.1 mi | 41.4 | 22% | 1.7% | 6% |
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 Bonnes
What is the population of Bonnes?
1,688 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,747).
How old are Bonnes’ residents?
The median age is 47.9, older than 74% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bonnes?
82, with occasional dwellings: 8.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bonnes?
INSEE counts 26 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 15 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bonnes?
€27,210 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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