Fewer households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 3%
By its share of flats (6.3%), Beine is below 94% of compared French towns. About one in 34: that is how common households in social housing are in Beine (2.9%). More households headed by a manual worker than in 95% of compared French towns: 24%. The 2023 Census counted 437 residents in 200 households.
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 Beine
Fewer residents than in 2012
Beine had 552 residents at the 2012 census and 437 in 2023, down 21%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Beine changed by −21% from 2012 to 2023, 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, −4% in Yonne. Here the change came as −13% to 2017, then −9% to 2023.
Beine sits below 76% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (9.3%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Beine 44.2. The median compared French town: 44.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 20% in Beine and 22% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. The median age here is 44.2, higher than in 51% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 114 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of single-parent households than 78% of compared French towns, at 12%
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
One-person households: 38%, above just over three fifths of compared French towns. As a yardstick, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.1 people. 26% of households are couples with children, a higher share than in 53% of compared French towns.
7.8% of homes in Beine are second 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
Nearly one in ten homes stand empty, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Newcomers of less than two years account for 8.9% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 28%.
Standard of living at the median: €29,750 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 €29,750 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 83% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 35%, a higher share than 62% of compared French towns
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
On the census count, 9.8% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Across the comparison, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 2.3% of residents are foreign nationals in Beine
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in nearly two thirds of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Yonne has 9.2%. Foreign nationals: 4.3% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. 4.8% of residents are immigrants, or about one in 21.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 59% of compared French towns, at 24%
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
On the census count, 43% of residents 15 and over are married. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Graduates of higher education: 26%, a lower share than 63% 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
18% of adults out of school have no qualification. In the typical compared French town, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification.
Of 41 French towns its size (437 to 2,582 people), the 16th youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Beine sits below 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beine | 44.2 | 20% | 7.8% | 4.8% |
| Monéteau 4,114 · 6.8 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 2% | 6.2% |
| Auxerre 35,097 · 7.1 mi | 44.1 | 24% | 3.1% | 13% |
| Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche 3,151 · 8.8 mi | 56.9 | 38% | 1.5% | 6.3% |
| Appoigny 3,114 · 9.7 mi | 50.2 | 28% | 2.7% | 6.2% |
| Tonnerre 4,261 · 12.3 mi | 47.3 | 29% | 3.8% | 14% |
| Saint-Florentin 4,164 · 12.6 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 3.5% | 18% |
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 Beine
What is the population of Beine?
437 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 21% fewer than in 2012 (552).
How old are Beine’s residents?
The median age is 44.2, older than 51% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Beine?
19, with occasional dwellings: 7.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Beine?
INSEE counts 21 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.8% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Beine?
€29,750 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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