2.3% of households have no car, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns
Where 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, Cournanel has 1.9%. In 2023, the Census found 659 residents locally, living in 310 households. 6.6% of households are single parents, or about one in 15. With a median age of 50.4, Cournanel is older than 84% of compared French towns.
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.
A −1% change since 2012: slower than 74% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +7%, and from 2017 to 2023 −8%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Aude town +4%.
Cournanel ranks below 93% of compared French towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 7.9%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cournanel 50.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over: 28%, above 80% of compared French towns. Typically, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Only 29% of households are one person living alone in Cournanel
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
Each household has 2.1 people on average. At 25%, the share of couples with children is higher than in 50% of compared French towns. The benchmark for one-person households in the typical compared French town: 35%.
In Cournanel, 7% of homes are second homes, more than in 83% 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Empty homes make up about one in 11 here (9.2%). The share of second homes in the typical compared French town is 2.1%.
Median living standard: €24,370 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.
Living standards centre on €24,370 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
Cournanel sits above 63% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (35%)
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 manual worker make up 16%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. On the census count, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional. Across the comparison, 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).
Cournanel: 6.7% 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.
Immigrants make up a share higher than in 51% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Aude has 6%. About one in 15: that is how common immigrants are in Cournanel (6.7%). There is little gap on foreign nationals: 4.2%, about the same as 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.
A higher share of married residents than 97% of compared French towns, at 52%
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
19% of residents 15 and over are single, against 25% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 65% of compared French towns: 26%
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
In the typical compared French town, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification; in Cournanel, 17%. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 659 to 2,582 people: this is the 13th oldest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Cournanel and its 6 nearest towns: 1 of them are older
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cournanel | 50.4 | 28% | 7% | 6.7% |
| Limoux 10,532 · 1.7 mi | 50.3 | 30% | 4.7% | 11% |
| Quillan 2,978 · 11.3 mi | 59.1 | 38% | 19% | 14% |
| Palaja 2,722 · 12.3 mi | 46.2 | 22% | 2.5% | 5.8% |
| Carcassonne 46,080 · 13.6 mi | 46.6 | 26% | 6.7% | 14% |
| Pennautier 2,895 · 15.1 mi | 45.9 | 23% | 1.5% | 6.3% |
| Bram 3,233 · 15.5 mi | 49.5 | 30% | 2.2% | 5.6% |
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 Cournanel
What is the population of Cournanel?
659 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (665).
How old are Cournanel’s residents?
The median age is 50.4, older than 84% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cournanel?
26, with occasional dwellings: 7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cournanel?
INSEE counts 44 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.7% of residents, and 28 foreign nationals (4.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cournanel?
€24,370 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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