Couvrelles sits below 88% of compared French towns for single-parent households (7.1%)
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 174 residents in 73 households. 17% of residents are 65 or over, or about one in six. Where 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town, Couvrelles has 9.6%.
Throughout this page, the Aisne 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 Couvrelles
Fewer residents than in 2012
Couvrelles had 193 residents at the 2012 census and 174 in 2023, down 10%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower growth than 97% of compared French towns: Couvrelles changed by −10% since 2012
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 first five years brought −3%; the six to 2023, −7%. For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Aisne town −4%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.6%, a lower share than 87% 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
■ Couvrelles 41. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of Couvrelles’s residents are under 41, younger than in 73% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 11% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aisne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Couvrelles ranks below 83% of compared French towns on one-person households: 29%
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 Aisne median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.4 people on average. The benchmark for one-person households in the typical compared French town: 35%. Couvrelles has more couples with children than 68% of compared French towns, at 29%.
Couvrelles sits below 74% of compared French towns for households without a car (6.8%)
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
26% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 5.5% moved in within the last two years. The benchmark for households without a car in the typical compared French town: 11%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Little separates the share of second homes here, 2.4%, from the figure in the typical compared French town.
Standard of living at the median: €24,030 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,030 a year: lower than in 71% of compared French towns.
14% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 74% 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
Households headed by a retired person: 29% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. More households headed by a manual worker than in 53% of compared French towns: 14%. On average, 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).
Couvrelles sits below 67% of compared French towns for immigrants (4.6%)
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 6.3% of residents are foreign nationals, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 4.3%. On average, 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.
Fewer single residents than 68% of compared French towns: 23%
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 figure for married residents is 44% in Couvrelles and 43% in the typical compared French town. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Only 14% of adults out of school have no qualification in Couvrelles
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
35% of Couvrelles’ residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 14% have no diploma (19%).
Among 41 French towns of 174 to 2,582 people, the 4th 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).
Couvrelles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Couvrelles | 41 | 17% | 2.4% | 4.6% |
| Villeneuve-Saint-Germain 2,616 · 6.7 mi | 42.3 | 21% | 1.3% | 12% |
| Belleu 3,659 · 7.1 mi | 51.5 | 31% | 1.4% | 11% |
| Crouy 3,049 · 7.4 mi | 44.9 | 24% | 1.3% | 5.7% |
| Soissons 28,046 · 8 mi | 42.5 | 23% | 1.2% | 15% |
| Fismes 5,850 · 9 mi | 43.6 | 23% | 1.5% | 3.1% |
| Fère-en-Tardenois 2,836 · 9.7 mi | 47.8 | 28% | 1.9% | 3.3% |
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 Couvrelles
What is the population of Couvrelles?
174 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% fewer than in 2012 (193).
How old are Couvrelles’ residents?
The median age is 41, younger than 73% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Couvrelles?
2, with occasional dwellings: 2.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Couvrelles?
INSEE counts 8 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.6% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (6.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Couvrelles?
€24,030 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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