Older than 99% of compared French towns: half of Quérigut is over 64
Couples with children: 6.3% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. At the 2023 Census, 139 people lived in Quérigut, in 83 households. Here, 50% of households are headed by a retired person. 4.7% of homes are flats, fewer than in 96% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Ariège 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 Quérigut
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 250 second homes and occasional dwellings in Quérigut, 73% of its 350 homes: higher than in 99% of compared French towns. 99% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Quérigut’s residents are under 64 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 48% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 18% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 73%, a higher share than 99% 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
In the median compared French town, 11% of households have no car; here, one in six. As a yardstick, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Census figures put empty homes at 3.5% in Quérigut.
Slower growth than 78% of compared French towns: Quérigut changed by −2% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −6%, then +5% to 2023.
Quérigut: 48% of residents are 65 or over, above 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
■ Quérigut 64. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, 5.8% of residents are 15 to 24 in Quérigut. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ariège 52.2%, France 51.8%.
More one-person households than 81% of compared French towns: 44%
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 Ariège median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, one-person households come to 35%. The average household has 1.7 people.
Median standard of living: €20,590 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 residents live in households above €20,590 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 95% of compared French towns.
The largest group of households: retired (50%)
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 manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 70% of compared French towns: 4.3% of residents are immigrants
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.
The figure for foreign nationals is 2.9% in Quérigut and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Ariège has 9.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 70% 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.
Above 99% of compared French towns: 55% of residents 15 and over are married
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 is 18%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 93% of compared French towns, at 17%
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
Few places have so few adults with no qualification: 18% here, fewer than in 56% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 139 to 2,582 people
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); Quérigut the oldest (64).
Every neighbor is younger than Quérigut
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 Quérigut
What is the population of Quérigut?
139 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% fewer than in 2012 (142).
How old are Quérigut’s residents?
The median age is 64, older than 99% of compared French towns. 7.2% are under 18 and 48% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Quérigut?
250, with occasional dwellings: 73% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Quérigut?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.3% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (2.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Quérigut?
€20,590 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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