Half of Vault-de-Lugny is over 55.9, older than 95% of compared French towns
Where 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, Vault-de-Lugny has 14%. In 2023, the Census found 271 residents here, living in 140 households. The share of flats stands at 0.9%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
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 Vault-de-Lugny
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 54 second homes and occasional dwellings in Vault-de-Lugny, 25% of its 220 homes: higher than in 94% 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 ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Vault-de-Lugny had 318 residents at the 2012 census and 271 in 2023, down 15%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Vault-de-Lugny’s residents are under 55.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9.8% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Vault-de-Lugny: 25% of homes are second homes, above 94% of compared French towns
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
Against a figure of 6.7% in the typical compared French town, the share of empty homes in Vault-de-Lugny comes in at 11%. On households without a car, Vault-de-Lugny sits lower than just over four fifths of compared French towns: 5.9%. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%. Households that moved in under two years ago: 7.2%. Those in their home 30 years or more: 28%.
Since 2012, Vault-de-Lugny has changed by −15%, 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
The median Yonne town changed −4% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −8% and the next six −7%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 6.1%, a lower share than 99% 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
■ Vault-de-Lugny 55.9. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 22%; Vault-de-Lugny has 34%. Measured more widely, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Fewer single-parent households than 90% of compared French towns: 7%
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 here average 1.9 people each. Typically, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Higher than in 70% of compared French towns: 40% of households are one person living alone.
A median standard of living of €26,330 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.
The median standard of living in Vault-de-Lugny is €26,330 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 54% of compared French towns.
Vault-de-Lugny ranks above 74% of compared French towns on households headed by a manager or professional: 14%
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
Households headed by a manual worker make up 11%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. Across Vault-de-Lugny, 36% of households are headed by a retired person. As a yardstick, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 1.5% in Vault-de-Lugny, less than in 97% 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.
Foreign nationals make up 1.1%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. The median compared commune in Yonne has 9.2%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 97% 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.
Vault-de-Lugny ranks below 98% of compared French towns on single residents: 18%
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
With married residents at 40%, Vault-de-Lugny is behind 69% of compared French towns on that count. In the typical compared French town, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single.
Only 24% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Vault-de-Lugny
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
With adults with no qualification at 16%, Vault-de-Lugny is behind 70% of compared French towns on that count. On average, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 271 to 2,582 people, the 5th 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.
No nearby town is as old as Vault-de-Lugny
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 Vault-de-Lugny
What is the population of Vault-de-Lugny?
271 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% fewer than in 2012 (318).
How old are Vault-de-Lugny’s residents?
The median age is 55.9, older than 95% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Vault-de-Lugny?
54, with occasional dwellings: 25% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Vault-de-Lugny?
INSEE counts 4 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Vault-de-Lugny?
€26,330 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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