A median age of 62.1: Belcaire is older than 99% of compared French towns
In Belcaire, 14% of households are couples with children, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. The 2023 Census counted 365 residents in 190 households. Across Belcaire, 5.6% of households are headed by a manual worker. The town has fewer households in social housing than 91% of compared French towns, at 4%.
Throughout this page, the Aude 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 Belcaire
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 230 second homes and occasional dwellings in Belcaire, 49% of its 470 homes: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. 95% 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 Belcaire’s residents are under 62.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 43% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 15% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Belcaire had 461 residents at the 2012 census and 365 in 2023, down 21%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many people living alone
48% of Belcaire’s households are one person: higher than in 90% of compared French towns; 29% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 49%, a higher share than 97% 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
By its share of empty homes (11%), Belcaire is above 82% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, second homes come to 2.1%. Census figures put households without a car at 6.1% in the town. At 10%, the share of flats is lower than in 86% of compared French towns.
Slower growth than 99% of compared French towns: Belcaire changed by −21% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved −15%, and from 2017 to 2023 −7%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Aude town +4%.
Above 99% of compared French towns: 43% of residents are 65 or over
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Belcaire 62.1. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 99% of compared French towns: 4.7%. Set beside that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.
Belcaire sits below 99% of compared French towns for single-parent households (2.6%)
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 Aude median and the France median
Living alone · share
Here 48% of households are one person living alone, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 35%. Set beside that, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. On average, 1.8 people share a household.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €21,120 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 Belcaire’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €21,120 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 93% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 96% of compared French towns, at 49%
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
4.9% of households are headed by a manager or professional (typical compared French town: 9.4%). Set beside that, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 5.3% in Belcaire, more than in 59% 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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Aude has 6%. The share of immigrants stands at 6.2%. The benchmark for foreign nationals in the typical compared French town: 4.3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of single residents than 98% of compared French towns, at 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
Married residents: 50% here and 43% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 82% of compared French towns: 21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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: 26% here and 19% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 2nd oldest of 41 French towns this size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Every neighbor is younger than Belcaire
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 Belcaire
What is the population of Belcaire?
365 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 21% fewer than in 2012 (461).
How old are Belcaire’s residents?
The median age is 62.1, older than 99% of compared French towns. 11% are under 18 and 43% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Belcaire?
230, with occasional dwellings: 49% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Belcaire?
INSEE counts 23 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (5.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Belcaire?
€21,120 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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