Fewer households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 1.6%
8.7% of homes are flats (typical compared French town: 30%). Tourreilles’s 67 households held 128 residents at the 2023 Census. Couples with children account for 15%. Households headed by a manager or professional are more common here than in 77% 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.
What stands out about the people of Tourreilles
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 24 second homes and occasional dwellings in Tourreilles, 25% of its 97 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 87% 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 Tourreilles’ residents are under 51.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 25%, a higher share than 94% 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
Turnover: 7.9% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 16% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Empty homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 6.4%.
+2% since 2012: slower than 60% 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
Half of Tourreilles is over 51.9, older than 88% 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
■ Tourreilles 51.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.9%, below 65% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of one-person households than 64% of compared French towns: 38%
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
There are 1.9 people in the average household. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Median living standard: €21,870 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.
At €21,870 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 89% of compared French towns.
Tourreilles sits below 88% of compared French towns for households headed by a manual worker (7.7%)
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person is 32%; Tourreilles has 31%. Across the comparison, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Tourreilles sits above 82% of compared French towns for immigrants (13%)
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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Tourreilles comes in at 11%. Measured more widely, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents: 26%, a higher share than 56% 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
Married residents come to 42% in Tourreilles, about four in ten. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Graduates of higher education make up 38% in Tourreilles, more than in 74% 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
15% of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 128 to 2,582 people, the 9th 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.
Older than Tourreilles: 2 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Tourreilles
What is the population of Tourreilles?
128 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (125).
How old are Tourreilles’ residents?
The median age is 51.9, older than 88% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tourreilles?
24, with occasional dwellings: 25% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tourreilles?
INSEE counts 17 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 13% of residents, and 14 foreign nationals (11%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tourreilles?
€21,870 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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