Fewer households in social housing than 99% of compared French towns: 0.5%
Here nearly one in ten homes are flats, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. Vergigny’s 630 households held 1,486 residents at the 2023 Census. Locally, 2.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional. Second homes are more common here than in 75% 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 Vergigny
Immigrants
INSEE counts 200 immigrants in Vergigny (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 16% of residents, against 9.2% for the median compared commune in Yonne. 15% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Vergigny had 1,561 residents at the 2012 census and 1,486 in 2023, down 5%: slower growth than in 87% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
−5% since 2012, a pace below 87% 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 years 2012 to 2017 brought −1%; 2017 to 2023, −4%.
Vergigny ranks below 77% of compared French towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 9.2%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Vergigny 42.7. The median compared French town: 44.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 24% in Vergigny and 22% in the typical compared French town. By contrast, half of the town’s residents are under 42.7, younger than in three fifths of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Yonne 52.2%, France 51.8%.
In Vergigny, 6.4% of households are single parents, fewer than in 94% 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
On average, 2.1 people share a household. For single-parent households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 10%. Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 36%, more than in 54% of compared French towns. Little separates the share of couples with children here, 25%, from the figure in the typical compared French town.
6.5% of households have no car, fewer than in 77% 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
8.5% of homes stand empty, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Long tenure is the mark of 30% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 9.2% (under two years). Across the comparison, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town.
Standard of living at the median: €25,070 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 Vergigny’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,070 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 59% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a manual worker than 99% of compared French towns: 29%
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
32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 34% in Vergigny. The benchmark for households headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town: 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 16% in Vergigny, more than in 88% 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 15% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. For comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Vergigny, 24% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 59% 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 census found that 43% of residents 15 and over are married in Vergigny. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Graduates of higher education make up 13% in Vergigny, less than in 99% 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
Adults with no qualification make up 32%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. On average, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 1,486 to 2,582 people, the 10th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Vergigny is younger than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vergigny | 42.7 | 24% | 4.7% | 16% |
| Saint-Florentin 4,164 · 2.4 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 3.5% | 18% |
| Brienon-sur-Armançon 3,032 · 4.7 mi | 47 | 25% | 7.3% | 6.1% |
| Migennes 6,688 · 8.9 mi | 45.1 | 25% | 1.8% | 17% |
| Monéteau 4,114 · 10.3 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 2% | 6.2% |
| Appoigny 3,114 · 10.9 mi | 50.2 | 28% | 2.7% | 6.2% |
| Auxerre 35,097 · 13.6 mi | 44.1 | 24% | 3.1% | 13% |
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 Vergigny
What is the population of Vergigny?
1,486 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% fewer than in 2012 (1,561).
How old are Vergigny’s residents?
The median age is 42.7, younger than 60% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Vergigny?
34, with occasional dwellings: 4.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Vergigny?
INSEE counts 250 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 16% of residents, and 220 foreign nationals (15%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Vergigny?
€25,070 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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