32% of homes in Jouancy are second homes
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Jouancy’s 14 households held 29 residents at the 2023 Census. 67% of households are single parents. Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 6.9% of residents are 15 to 24 here.
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 Jouancy
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 9 second homes and occasional dwellings in Jouancy, 32% of its 28 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 ↓
Growing fast
Jouancy had 23 residents at the 2012 census and 29 in 2023, up 26%: faster growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 5 homes empty (18%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Many graduates
54% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 17% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Jouancy ranks above 98% of compared French towns on empty homes: 18%
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
Where 11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town, Jouancy has 7.1%. Add to that, households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The benchmark for empty homes in the typical compared French town: 6.7%.
From 2012 to 2023, Jouancy outgrew 95% of compared French towns: +26%
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
The years 2012 to 2017 brought +4%; 2017 to 2023, +21%.
Older than 66% of compared French towns: half of Jouancy is over 46.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Jouancy 46.5. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 22%; Jouancy has 21%.
Women and men · all residents
41% women, 59% men
About 71 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
A smaller share of one-person households than 59% of compared French towns: 33%
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
On average, 2.1 people share a household. Against that, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Couples with children are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a manual worker than 99% of compared French towns: 33%
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
Jouancy has more households headed by a retired person than 55% of compared French towns, at 33%. The comparison figure for households headed by a manual worker is 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 3.4% of residents are immigrants in Jouancy
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 78% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Yonne has 9.2%. For comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Foreign nationals make up about one in 29 here (3.4%).
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Married residents: 28%, a lower share than 99% 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
The share of single residents tops 94% of compared French towns: 36%. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
8.3% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 98% 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
Where 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, Jouancy has 54%. For adults with no qualification, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 19%.
41 French towns of 29 to 2,582 people: this is the 18th 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.
Every neighbor is older than Jouancy
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 Jouancy
What is the population of Jouancy?
29 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 26% more than in 2012 (23).
How old are Jouancy’s residents?
The median age is 46.5, older than 66% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Jouancy?
9, with occasional dwellings: 32% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Jouancy?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.4% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (3.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
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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