Older than 92% of compared French towns: half of Asquins is over 53.8
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Asquins was home to 305 people in 170 households. Here, 14% of households are couples with children. A fifth of households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town.
Throughout this page, the Yonne 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 Asquins
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 110 second homes and occasional dwellings in Asquins, 36% of its 310 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 95% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Asquins’ residents are under 53.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 32% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.4% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
49% of Asquins’ households are one person: higher than in 92% of compared French towns; 38% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More second homes than 96% of compared French towns: 36%
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 11 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. The share of flats stands at 3.2%. At 8.8%, the share of empty homes is higher than in 71% of compared French towns. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%.
−1% since 2012, a pace below 75% 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
In two steps, −5% to 2017 and +4% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −4% in Yonne.
7.9% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 93% 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
■ Asquins 53.8. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 65 and over at 32%, Asquins is ahead of 91% of compared French towns on that count. Elsewhere, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Asquins ranks above 92% of compared French towns on one-person households: 49%
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 Yonne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households: 8.5% here and 10% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households average 1.8 people.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €27,010 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 Asquins’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €27,010 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 61% of compared French towns.
Asquins sits below 67% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (11%)
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
The share of households headed by a retired person is 34%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manual worker come to 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A larger share of foreign nationals than 62% of compared French towns: 5.8%
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.
The share of immigrants stands at 6.1%. That is lower than in 54% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Yonne has 9.2%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents make up 31% in Asquins, more than in 83% 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
In the typical compared French town, 43% of residents 15 and over are married; in Asquins, 39%. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Only 10% of adults out of school have no qualification in Asquins
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
34% of Asquins’ residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 10% have no diploma (19%).
7th highest median age among 41 French towns of 305 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Asquins is older 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 Asquins
What is the population of Asquins?
305 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (309).
How old are Asquins’ residents?
The median age is 53.8, older than 92% of compared French towns. 8.5% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Asquins?
110, with occasional dwellings: 36% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Asquins?
INSEE counts 19 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.1% of residents, and 18 foreign nationals (5.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Asquins?
€27,010 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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