Chalabre is older than 98% of compared French towns: a median age of 59.5
25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, against 14% in Chalabre. Households headed by a retired person make up about one in two here (45%). At 3.2%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in 93% of compared French towns. This Aude town had 1,084 residents in 520 households at the 2023 Census.
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 Chalabre
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 130 second homes and occasional dwellings in Chalabre, 17% of its 790 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 94% 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 Chalabre’s residents are under 59.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 40% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 16% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
50% of Chalabre’s households are one person: higher than in 93% of compared French towns; 32% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Empty homes
The census found 130 homes empty (17%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Empty homes make up 17% in Chalabre, more than in 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
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, a quarter of homes are flats in Chalabre. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Census figures put households without a car at 16% locally. More second homes than in 92% of compared French towns: 17%.
−3% since 2012, a pace below 81% 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
Over the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Aude town +4%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought ±0%; 2017 to 2023, −3%.
Above 98% of compared French towns: 40% 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
■ Chalabre 59.5. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Chalabre has 7.1%. By way of comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
More one-person households than 93% of compared French towns: 50%
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
A household here holds 1.8 people on average. One-person households make up 35% in the typical compared French town. At 9%, the share of single-parent households is lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
A median of €20,410 a year per consumption unit
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.
The median standard of living in Chalabre is €20,410 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 95% of compared French towns.
In Chalabre, 4.9% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 86% 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
Put another way, about one in eight: 13% of households are headed by a manual worker. The usual figure: 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).
Chalabre: 7% of residents are foreign nationals, above 69% 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.
Where 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town, Chalabre has 8.3%. That is higher than in 62% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Aude has 6%. For comparison, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
Chalabre ranks below 90% of compared French towns on married residents: 35%
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
Compared with other places, single residents are common here: 26%, more than in 56% of compared French towns. Against that, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Chalabre sits below 81% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (21%)
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
Set against 19% in the typical compared French town, 26% of adults out of school have no qualification in Chalabre. In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%.
4th highest median age among 41 French towns of 1,084 to 2,582
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).
Chalabre is older than every town around it
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 Chalabre
What is the population of Chalabre?
1,084 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,115).
How old are Chalabre’s residents?
The median age is 59.5, older than 98% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 40% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chalabre?
130, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chalabre?
INSEE counts 90 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.3% of residents, and 76 foreign nationals (7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chalabre?
€20,410 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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