A median age of 58.2: Festes-et-Saint-André is older than 97% of compared French towns
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 185 residents in Festes-et-Saint-André, living in 110 households. Locally, 3.1% of homes are flats. Here just over one in ten households are couples with children, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%.
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 Festes-et-Saint-André
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 16 second homes and occasional dwellings in Festes-et-Saint-André, 12% of its 140 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 0 immigrants in Festes-et-Saint-André (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 25% of residents, against 6% for the median compared commune in Aude. 23% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
An older town
Half of Festes-et-Saint-André’s residents are under 58.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
54% of Festes-et-Saint-André’s households are one person: higher than in 98% of compared French towns; 45% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 12% of its homes
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
One household in 13 has no car (median compared French town: 11%). Elsewhere, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. The share of households without a car stands at 7.8%. Compared with other places, empty homes are common here: 8.7%, more than in 71% of compared French towns.
Festes-et-Saint-André changed by −4% from 2012 to 2023, behind 84% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +7%, then −10% to 2023.
3.8% of residents are 15 to 24, below 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
■ Festes-et-Saint-André 58.2. The median compared French town: 44.
30% of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.
Festes-et-Saint-André: 54% of households are one person living alone, above 98% of compared French towns
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
Single-parent households: 8.4%, below three quarters of compared French towns. Elsewhere, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. The average household has 1.7 people.
The median resident lives on €16,930 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.
Half of residents live in households above €16,930 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 99% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a retired person than 95% of compared French towns: 47%
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
4.4% of households are headed by a manual worker (typical compared French town: 14%). As a reference point, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. On the census count, 8% of households are headed by a manager or professional.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Above 97% of compared French towns: 25% 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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, nearly a quarter of residents are foreign nationals in Festes-et-Saint-André. Against that, 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.
35% of residents 15 and over are married, below 88% of compared French towns
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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, a third of residents 15 and over are single in Festes-et-Saint-André. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Festes-et-Saint-André ranks above 61% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 33%
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
17% of adults out of school have no qualification, against 19% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, graduates of higher education come to 30%.
41 French towns of 185 to 2,582 people: this is the 5th 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.
1 of 4 neighbors are older than Festes-et-Saint-André
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 Festes-et-Saint-André
What is the population of Festes-et-Saint-André?
185 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (192).
How old are Festes-et-Saint-André’s residents?
The median age is 58.2, older than 97% of compared French towns. 9.6% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Festes-et-Saint-André?
16, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Festes-et-Saint-André?
INSEE counts 46 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 25% of residents, and 43 foreign nationals (23%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Festes-et-Saint-André?
€16,930 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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