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Who the Americans in France are

The 2023 census counts 33,707 people of US nationality living in France. Here is how they divide by age, sex, household, work, qualification, housing and years in France, with the margin INSEE says to expect around each count.

INSEE census file RP2023, read on 28 October 2026.

The headline

19,015

Are women

56.4% of the 33,707. Men: 14,691.

14,514

Have a job

43.1% of the total. 6,227 are retired and 3,089 are pupils or students.

12,041

Arrived in France less than five years before the census

35.7% of the total. 1,903 were born in France.

A plain reading: the largest age band is 25 to 34 years with 5,547 people. Among those aged 14 or over, the most common highest qualification is the group "Master level or grande école, five years after the baccalauréat, or a doctorate in health", held by 9,829. 13,698 own their home, and 10,752 rent an unfurnished home from a private landlord.

These are people who hold American nationality and no French nationality, who usually live in France. They are not Americans in general, and the census misses short stays. The section on what INSEE counts says who is in and who is out. The count is for all of France: Americans in France by region gives it by region and by département.

Sex

Every person in the file has a sex, so the two groups add up to the total. INSEE variable SEXE, "Sexe". The table covers 33,707 people, 9,444 in the file.

Share of the 33,707 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. Men 43.6%
  2. Women 56.4%
Sex: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
MenHommes 14,691 14,250 to 15,132 43.6% 48.5% 4,109
WomenFemmes 19,015 18,445 to 19,585 56.4% 51.5% 5,335

Age

INSEE's file gives age in five-year groups. We add them up into the bands shown. INSEE variable AGEREVQ, "Âge quinquennal en années révolues". The table covers 33,707 people, 9,444 in the file.

Share of the 33,707 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. Under 15 13.1%
  2. 15 to 24 11.4%
  3. 25 to 34 16.5%
  4. 35 to 44 15.6%
  5. 45 to 54 11.5%
  6. 55 to 64 12.8%
  7. 65 to 74 11.2%
  8. 75 and over 7.9%
Age: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
Under 15 4,403 4,183 to 4,623 13.1% 17% 1,210
15 to 24 3,859 3,666 to 4,052 11.4% 12% 1,263
25 to 34 5,547 5,270 to 5,824 16.5% 11.6% 1,647
35 to 44 5,261 4,998 to 5,524 15.6% 12.6% 1,466
45 to 54 3,876 3,682 to 4,070 11.5% 12.9% 1,045
55 to 64 4,327 4,111 to 4,543 12.8% 12.7% 1,121
65 to 74 3,767 3,579 to 3,955 11.2% 11.1% 988
75 and over 2,668 2,508 to 2,828 7.9% 10.1% 704

Household situation

INSEE's "mode de cohabitation". INSEE variable MOCO, "Mode de cohabitation". The table covers 33,707 people, 9,444 in the file.

Share of the 33,707 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. Children of a couple 12.1%
  2. Children of a single-parent family 4.9%
  3. Adults in a couple without children 32.1%
  4. Adults in a couple with children 20.8%
  5. Adults in a single-parent family 2.6%
  6. Not in a family, in a household of several people 4.7%
  7. Living alone 20.3%
  8. Living outside a household 2.4%
Household situation: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
Children of a coupleEnfants d'un couple 4,085 3,881 to 4,289 12.1% 20% 1,100
Children of a single-parent familyEnfants d'une famille monoparentale 1,660 1,527 to 1,793 4.9% 7.4% 479
Adults in a couple without childrenAdultes d'un couple sans enfant 10,834 10,509 to 11,159 32.1% 23.6% 2,912
Adults in a couple with childrenAdultes d'un couple avec enfant(s) 6,997 6,787 to 7,207 20.8% 21.6% 1,891
Adults in a single-parent familyAdultes d'une famille monoparentale 877 781 to 973 2.6% 4.8% 241
Not in a family, in a household of several peopleHors famille dans ménage de plusieurs personnes 1,598 1,470 to 1,726 4.7% 2.5% 472
Living alonePersonnes vivant seules 6,841 6,636 to 7,046 20.3% 18% 2,162
Living outside a householdPersonnes vivant hors ménage 815 725 to 905 2.4% 2.1% 187

Activity

INSEE's "type d'activité" for everyone in the file, children included. INSEE variable TACT, "Type d'activité". The table covers 33,707 people, 9,444 in the file.

Share of the 33,707 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. In work, including apprentices and paid trainees 43.1%
  2. Unemployed 6.1%
  3. Retired or early retired 18.5%
  4. Pupils, students and unpaid trainees aged 14 or over 9.2%
  5. Under 14 12.4%
  6. Homemakers 5.8%
  7. Other inactive 5%
Activity: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
In work, including apprentices and paid traineesActifs ayant un emploi, y compris sous apprentissage ou en stage rémunéré. 14,514 14,079 to 14,949 43.1% 42.4% 4,070
UnemployedChômeurs 2,042 1,919 to 2,165 6.1% 5.2% 606
Retired or early retiredRetraités ou préretraités 6,227 6,040 to 6,414 18.5% 23.1% 1,622
Pupils, students and unpaid trainees aged 14 or overElèves, étudiants, stagiaires non rémunéré de 14 ans ou plus 3,089 2,935 to 3,243 9.2% 7.5% 1,000
Under 14Moins de 14 ans 4,174 3,965 to 4,383 12.4% 15.7% 1,147
HomemakersFemmes ou hommes au foyer 1,963 1,806 to 2,120 5.8% 2% 526
Other inactiveAutres inactifs 1,697 1,561 to 1,833 5% 4.1% 473

Occupational group

INSEE codes everyone without an occupational group "sans objet" (not applicable), and they are left out of this table. INSEE variable GS, "Groupe socioprofessionnel en 6 postes". The table covers 14,514 people, 4,070 in the file. Left out: 19,192 people (Sans objet).

Share of the 14,514 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. Farmers n.p.
  2. Craftspeople, shopkeepers and business owners 7.9%
  3. Managers and higher intellectual professions 48.7%
  4. Intermediate professions 28.5%
  5. Employees 10.8%
  6. Manual workers 3.6%
Occupational group: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
FarmersAgriculteur not published under 250 people not published 1.3% 14
Craftspeople, shopkeepers and business ownersArtisan, commerçant et chef d'entreprise 1,151 1,059 to 1,243 7.9% 7% 305
Managers and higher intellectual professionsCadres 7,068 6,856 to 7,280 48.7% 20.9% 1,982
Intermediate professionsProfession intermédiaire 4,142 3,935 to 4,349 28.5% 26% 1,168
EmployeesEmployé 1,573 1,447 to 1,699 10.8% 25.7% 460
Manual workersOuvrier 522 465 to 579 3.6% 19% 141

Highest qualification

INSEE gives the highest qualification for people aged 14 or over. Younger people are left out of this table. INSEE variable DIPL, "Diplôme le plus élevé". The table covers 29,533 people, 8,297 in the file. Left out: 4,174 people (Hors champ (individu de moins de 14 ans)).

Share of the 29,533 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. No qualification 5.7%
  2. Primary school certificate (CEP) n.p.
  3. Lower secondary certificate (BEPC, brevet, DNB) 2.5%
  4. Vocational certificate (CAP, BEP) 2.2%
  5. General or technological baccalauréat 10.4%
  6. Vocational baccalauréat or equivalent 4.1%
  7. Two years after the baccalauréat (BTS, DUT, health or social diploma) 4.6%
  8. Bachelor level, three or four years after the baccalauréat 29%
  9. Master level or grande école, five years after the baccalauréat, or a doctorate in health 33.3%
  10. Research doctorate, health excluded 7.6%
Highest qualification: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
No qualificationAucun diplôme 1,685 1,550 to 1,820 5.7% 13.5% 484
Primary school certificate (CEP)CEP (certificat d’études primaires) not published under 250 people not published 5.3% 60
Lower secondary certificate (BEPC, brevet, DNB)BEPC, brevet élémentaire, brevet des collèges, DNB 736 655 to 817 2.5% 8.4% 213
Vocational certificate (CAP, BEP)CAP, BEP ou diplôme de niveau équivalent 649 578 to 720 2.2% 20.8% 189
General or technological baccalauréatBaccalauréat général ou technologique, brevet supérieur, capacité en droit, DAEU, ESEU 3,061 2,908 to 3,214 10.4% 11.1% 881
Vocational baccalauréat or equivalentBaccalauréat professionnel, brevet professionnel, de technicien ou d’enseignement, diplôme équivalent 1,206 1,110 to 1,302 4.1% 8% 341
Two years after the baccalauréat (BTS, DUT, health or social diploma)BTS, DUT, Deug, Deust, diplôme de la santé ou du social de niveau bac+2, diplôme équivalent 1,347 1,239 to 1,455 4.6% 10.6% 378
Bachelor level, three or four years after the baccalauréatLicence, licence pro, BUT, maîtrise, diplôme équivalent de niveau bac+3 ou bac+4 8,575 8,318 to 8,832 29% 10.1% 2,399
Master level or grande école, five years after the baccalauréat, or a doctorate in healthMaster, DEA, DESS, diplôme grande école niveau bac+5, doctorat de santé 9,829 9,534 to 10,124 33.3% 11.3% 2,745
Research doctorate, health excludedDoctorat de recherche (hors santé) 2,233 2,099 to 2,367 7.6% 0.9% 607

Housing tenure

INSEE's detailed housing tenure. People living outside an ordinary home ("hors logement ordinaire") are left out of this table. INSEE variable STOCD, "Statut d'occupation détaillé du logement". The table covers 32,891 people, 9,257 in the file. Left out: 815 people (Hors logement ordinaire, 00).

Share of the 32,891 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. Owner 41.6%
  2. Tenant of an unfurnished private home 32.7%
  3. Tenant of an unfurnished social housing (HLM) home 5.2%
  4. Tenant of a furnished home or a hotel room 16.8%
  5. Housed free of charge 3.6%
Housing tenure: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
OwnerPropriétaire 13,698 13,287 to 14,109 41.6% 60.3% 3,525
Tenant of an unfurnished private homeLocataire ou sous-locataire d'un logement loué vide non HLM 10,752 10,429 to 11,075 32.7% 18.9% 3,086
Tenant of an unfurnished social housing (HLM) homeLocataire ou sous-locataire d'un logement loué vide HLM 1,718 1,581 to 1,855 5.2% 15.7% 541
Tenant of a furnished home or a hotel roomLocataire ou sous-locataire d'un logement loué meublé ou d'une chambre d'hôtel 5,529 5,253 to 5,805 16.8% 3.1% 1,758
Housed free of chargeLogé gratuitement 1,194 1,098 to 1,290 3.6% 2% 347

Years since arrival in France

INSEE asks the year of arrival only of people born abroad. "Non déclaré" is a category of its own and INSEE does not fill in the gaps. INSEE variable ANARR, "Ancienneté d'arrivée en France regroupée". The table covers 33,707 people, 9,444 in the file.

Share of the 33,707 people, by group. The thin line is the 95% interval.
  1. Less than 5 years 35.7%
  2. 5 to 9 years 18.8%
  3. 10 to 19 years 15.3%
  4. 20 to 29 years 7.7%
  5. 30 to 39 years 5%
  6. 40 to 49 years 2.9%
  7. 50 to 59 years 1.8%
  8. 60 to 69 years n.p.
  9. 70 years or more n.p.
  10. Born abroad, year of arrival not stated 6.5%
  11. Born in France 5.6%
Years since arrival in France: people of US nationality, census RP2023 (INSEE)
GroupUS nationals95% intervalShareAll residentsPeople in file
Less than 5 yearsDepuis moins de 5 ans 12,041 11,680 to 12,402 35.7% 1.5% 3,531
5 to 9 yearsDepuis 5 à 9 ans 6,328 6,138 to 6,518 18.8% 1.6% 1,744
10 to 19 yearsDepuis 10 à 19 ans 5,150 4,893 to 5,408 15.3% 2.2% 1,413
20 to 29 yearsDepuis 20 à 29 ans 2,581 2,426 to 2,736 7.7% 1.6% 683
30 to 39 yearsDepuis 30 à 39 ans 1,676 1,542 to 1,810 5% 1.1% 437
40 to 49 yearsDepuis 40 à 49 ans 966 860 to 1,072 2.9% 1.1% 254
50 to 59 yearsDepuis 50 à 59 ans 616 548 to 684 1.8% 1.1% 167
60 to 69 yearsDepuis 60 à 69ans not published under 250 people not published 1% 48
70 years or moreDepuis 70 ans et plus not published under 250 people not published 0.2% 14
Born abroad, year of arrival not statedNon déclaré (pour un individu né à l'étranger) 2,194 2,062 to 2,326 6.5% 2% 625
Born in FranceIndividu né en France 1,903 1,751 to 2,055 5.6% 86.7% 528

How to read the tables

"US nationals" is the weighted count of people of US nationality in the group. "Share" is that count over the total of the table. "All residents" is the share of the same group among every resident of France in the file, so that a group can be set against the whole population: it has no interval because the file holds 68,089,029 weighted people. "People in file" is the number of people of US nationality behind the count, before weighting.

A group is published when its count is 250 or more and it rests on at least 30 people in the file. 250 is the smallest count for which INSEE's precision table gives a coefficient of variation: under it, the table says only "more than 8.0%", so we show no bounds and no count. INSEE gives no minimum number of people in a cell. The threshold of 30 people is ours and is the one used on the by-region page. Groups under the threshold are in the tables as "not published", with the number of people behind them. The unpublished groups are the 4 listed as such above.

The margin: INSEE publishes a table of the coefficient of variation by size of count (fiche-precision.pdf (September 2023), communes of 10,000 inhabitants or more in metropolitan France, RP2018). We read the band of each count and apply INSEE's rule, count × (1 ± 2 × coefficient of variation). INSEE built the table for whole communes, so for a group of people of one nationality across France the interval is a guide and not an exact bound.

What INSEE counts and what it leaves out

The count is of nationality, not of birthplace. The file codes each person's current nationality, and code 840 stands for "Américains (USA)". An American-born person who is now French is not in it. A person born elsewhere who holds only American nationality is.

A person with French and American nationality is counted as French. INSEE treats anyone of French nationality who holds another as French, so dual nationals are missing from these tables. The census counts people who usually live in France. It does not count foreigners who are only here for a few days or weeks, cross-border workers or people living here for a limited time of under a year, such as students on one semester. The profile is therefore of people who live here for longer.

The census is a survey spread over five years. RP2023 is built from the annual surveys of 2021 to 2025, and the 2021 survey in communes of 10,000 inhabitants or more was replaced by a pseudo-survey built from 2016 data. INSEE says the figures show an average situation over the five years more than a picture of one day. Each person carries a weight with many decimals, and INSEE says to add the weights with all their decimals. We do, and we round only the sums, so a total can differ by a unit from the sum of its groups.

The year of arrival is the one answer INSEE does not fill in when it is missing, so "not stated" is a group of its own. The question is asked only of people born abroad, and "Born in France" is the group of US nationals who were born here.

Why this profile cannot be set against older ones

This page shows no change over time. INSEE says the 2024 annual survey used a new way of collecting answers, which counted more people and identified immigrants more reliably, so data from 2024 onward cannot be compared directly with earlier data. RP2023 contains the surveys of 2024 and 2025. A profile of Americans drawn from an earlier census is a different vintage, and a gap between it and this page is not a trend.

The page Americans in France: the official numbers sets out the other counts, from permits and from Social Security, and what each one measures.

How to cite these figures

INSEE publishes its public data under the Licence Ouverte 2.0. It allows free reuse, including commercial use, if the source is shown as "Source : Insee", if the date of the last update is given when it is known, and if the meaning of the data is not altered. A citation:

Source : Insee, recensement de la population 2023, fichier détail « Individus localisés à la région », exploitation principale et complémentaire, https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/9004831, consulté le 28 October 2026.

The counts on this page are INSEE's weights summed by us, the age bands are our sums of INSEE's five-year groups and the intervals are our application of INSEE's rule. INSEE has not reviewed them. To cite this page:

EasyFranceNow, "Who the Americans in France are: a census profile", https://easyfrancenow.com/data/who-are-the-americans-in-france, data read 28 October 2026.

Download all the figures as a CSV. Each row is one group of one table, with its count, the people in the file, the interval and the day it was read.

Methodology

  • The file. INSEE's "Individus localisés à la région en 2023" (17,702,858 rows, one per person recorded in the census). We read the publication page, the dictionary of variables and the documentation on 28 October 2026, and the file itself from the zip INSEE publishes.
  • The count. The sum of the weight (variable IPONDI) of every row whose detailed nationality (NAT49) is 840, for each group of the variables SEXE, AGEREVQ, MOCO, TACT, GS, DIPL, STOCD and ANARR, at national level. We use the labels of the dictionary and give the French wording under each English reading.
  • The interval. INSEE's note on the precision of census results (September 2023): the true value lies in 95 cases out of 100 in count × (1 − 2 × CV) to count × (1 + 2 × CV), with CV read from its table by size of count.
  • Definitions. From INSEE's notes on nationalities and immigration (June 2026), how to use the census (June 2026) and the series break in the measure of immigrants (4 June 2026).
  • What we do not do. We add no figure of our own beyond the sums, shares and intervals described here. We do not cross the dimensions with each other, we do not split the count by region, and we do not give a total of Americans in France whatever their legal status. The extract we rebuild the page from is in the project, as is the script that makes it.

Other pages with these figures: Americans in France by region, Americans in Paris and Americans in Nice. Reporters: the press page sums up the main figures, with the contact. How we check facts in general is on how we verify.

What each number means: the definitions of every measure on these pages, from the publishers' own metadata.