In Labécède-Lauragais, 2.5% of households have no car, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns
The share of households headed by a manual worker trails 96% of compared French towns: 5%. On the census count, 4.8% of homes are flats. Couples with children are rarer here than in 75% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 420 residents and 200 households in Labécède-Lauragais.
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 Labécède-Lauragais
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 27 second homes and occasional dwellings in Labécède-Lauragais, 11% of its 250 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 96% 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 Labécède-Lauragais’ residents are under 51.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Only 0.5% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Labécède-Lauragais
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
With empty homes at 10%, Labécède-Lauragais is ahead of nearly four fifths of compared French towns on that count. The comparison figure for households in social housing is 12% in the typical compared French town. Second homes make up about one in nine here (11%).
Labécède-Lauragais changed by −1% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 75% 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 same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Aude town +4%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was −3%; from 2017 to 2023, +2%.
Labécède-Lauragais is older than 87% of compared French towns: a median age of 51.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Labécède-Lauragais 51.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Here one in ten residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 26%.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.
35% of households are one person living alone, more than in 51% 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
A household here holds 2.1 people on average. Single-parent households are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 10%.
The median resident lives on €23,270 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 €23,270 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 79% of compared French towns.
43% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 89% 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
Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 7.4% of Labécède-Lauragais’ residents
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 median compared commune in Aude has 6%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 56% of compared French towns. Put another way, about one in 14: 7.4% of residents are immigrants. Nothing unusual on foreign nationals: 4.5%, close to the figure 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 smaller share of single residents than 87% of compared French towns: 21%
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 43% in the typical compared French town, two in five residents 15 and over are married here. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
15% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 75% of compared French towns
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
28% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification (typical compared French town: 30%). Against that, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 420 to 2,582 people: this is the 10th 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.
Labécède-Lauragais sits below 1 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labécède-Lauragais | 51.4 | 26% | 11% | 7.4% |
| Sorèze 2,965 · 4.7 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 8.9% | 5.8% |
| Revel 9,762 · 4.8 mi | 52.6 | 33% | 3% | 6.1% |
| Castelnaudary 12,151 · 5.7 mi | 43.9 | 25% | 2.5% | 13% |
| Bram 3,233 · 11.7 mi | 49.5 | 30% | 2.2% | 5.6% |
| Puylaurens 3,257 · 12.6 mi | 47.8 | 27% | 6.5% | 4.6% |
| Soual 2,637 · 12.7 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 1.7% | 4.2% |
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 Labécède-Lauragais
What is the population of Labécède-Lauragais?
420 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (425).
How old are Labécède-Lauragais’ residents?
The median age is 51.4, older than 87% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Labécède-Lauragais?
27, with occasional dwellings: 11% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Labécède-Lauragais?
INSEE counts 31 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.4% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (4.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Labécède-Lauragais?
€23,270 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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