Only 0.8% of homes are flats in Girolles
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Girolles is home to 200 residents in 88 households, by the 2023 Census. Census figures put households headed by a manual worker at 5.6% in the town. In Girolles, 5.5% of residents are 15 to 24, beside 11% 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 Girolles
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 34 second homes and occasional dwellings in Girolles, 28% of its 120 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Girolles sits above 95% of compared French towns for second homes (28%)
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
In the typical compared French town, 11% of households have no car; in Girolles, 8%. By way of comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Nearly a quarter of households have been in place 30 years or more; 5.7% moved in within the last two years. Empty homes are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Girolles grew +7% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 59% 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 the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Yonne town −4%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought −10%; 2017 to 2023, +18%.
Girolles is older than 72% of compared French towns: a median age of 47.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Girolles 47.5. The median compared French town: 44.
24% of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
5.6% of households are single parents, fewer than in 98% 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 Yonne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2.3 people. For comparison, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. 28% of households are one person living alone, a lower share than in 86% of compared French towns. Couples with children: 22% here and 25% in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €25,080 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 Girolles’ residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,080 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 59% of compared French towns.
In Girolles, 28% of households are headed by a retired person, fewer than in 75% 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
In Girolles, just over one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional, beside 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, nearly a third 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).
1% of residents are foreign nationals, below 94% 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.
Here 4% of residents are immigrants, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 6.5%. The share of foreign nationals in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. The median compared commune in Yonne has 9.2%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 73% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Below 99% of compared French towns: 14% 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 53% in Girolles. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 75% of compared French towns: 23%
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
Adults with no qualification: nearly a fifth of the total. Against that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 200 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Girolles 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 Girolles
What is the population of Girolles?
200 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (187).
How old are Girolles’ residents?
The median age is 47.5, older than 72% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Girolles?
34, with occasional dwellings: 28% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Girolles?
INSEE counts 8 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Girolles?
€25,080 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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