Photo: Gilles Guillamot · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 59.1: Quillan is older than 98% of compared French towns
Couples with children make up 10%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 93% of compared French towns: 4% of households are headed by a manager or professional. At the 2023 Census, 2,978 people lived in Quillan, in 1,650 households. In Quillan, just over a fifth of households have no car.
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 Quillan
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 530 second homes and occasional dwellings in Quillan, 19% of its 2,730 homes: higher than in 93% of compared French towns. 92% 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 Quillan’s residents are under 59.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 38% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 13% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Quillan had 3,448 residents at the 2012 census and 2,978 in 2023, down 14%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 550 homes empty (20%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A larger share of empty homes than 99% of compared French towns: 20%
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 five has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. Quillan has more second homes than 93% of compared French towns, at 19%. The comparison figure for empty homes is 6.7% in the typical compared French town. For Quillan, the census puts flats at 23%.
Since 2012, Quillan has changed by −14%, slower than 99% 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 those years, the median Aude town changed +4% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −6%, then −9% to 2023.
In Quillan, 38% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 97% 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
■ Quillan 59.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 7% of residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
Quillan: 48% of households are one person living alone, above 90% 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
Nothing unusual on single-parent households: 9.1%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €20,830 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 residents live in households above €20,830 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 94% of compared French towns. The share living below the poverty line is 30.0%.
Quillan: 48% of households are headed by a retired person, above 96% 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 manual worker: 9.7% here and 14% in the typical compared French town. Against 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).
14% of residents are immigrants, more than in 82% 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.
In Quillan, one in ten residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Aude has 6%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. The share of immigrants in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Quillan sits below 57% of compared French towns for married residents (42%)
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
Across Quillan, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
Graduates of higher education: 19%, a lower share than 88% 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
26% of adults out of school have no qualification, against 19% in the typical compared French town. Graduates of higher education: 30% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
41 French towns of 2,947 to 3,012 people: this is the 2nd 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 Gorcy (40.5), the youngest, and Vimoutiers (60.1), the oldest.
Every neighbor is younger than Quillan
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 Quillan
What is the population of Quillan?
2,978 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 14% fewer than in 2012 (3,448).
How old are Quillan’s residents?
The median age is 59.1, older than 98% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 38% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Quillan?
530, with occasional dwellings: 19% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Quillan?
INSEE counts 410 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 14% of residents, and 290 foreign nationals (9.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Quillan?
€20,830 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 30.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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