La Couvertoirade sits above 97% of compared French towns for second homes (44%)
With flats at 7.8%, La Couvertoirade is behind 91% of compared French towns on that count. Households without a car are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The town is home to 210 residents in 100 households, by the 2023 Census. The census found that 28% of residents are 65 or over here.
Throughout this page, the Aveyron 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 La Couvertoirade
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 92 second homes and occasional dwellings in La Couvertoirade, 44% of its 210 homes: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. 95% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Growing fast
La Couvertoirade had 177 residents at the 2012 census and 210 in 2023, up 19%: faster growth than in 88% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
La Couvertoirade sits below 97% of compared French towns for households in social housing (1.8%)
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
Compared with 6.7% in the typical compared French town, 7.9% of homes stand empty here. To put it in context, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. Newcomers of less than two years account for nearly one in ten households, residents of 30 years or more for 18%.
A growing town: +19% since 2012, faster than 88% 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 change was +6%; from 2017 to 2023, +12%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Aveyron town +1%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.1%, a lower share than 92% 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
■ La Couvertoirade 48.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of La Couvertoirade’s residents are over 48.7, older than in 78% of compared French towns. Typically, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 113 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aveyron 52.1%, France 51.8%.
La Couvertoirade ranks below 80% of compared French towns on couples with children: 19%
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 Aveyron median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are one person living alone; in La Couvertoirade, 39%. On average, 2.1 people share a household. The share of couples with children in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €20,320 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 €20,320 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 96% of compared French towns.
Only 9.4% of households are headed by a manual worker in La Couvertoirade
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
34% of households are headed by a retired person; in the typical compared French town the figure is 32%. Against that, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manager or professional make up about one in 11 here (9.4%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 1.8%, a lower share than 94% 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 La Couvertoirade, 0.9% of residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Set beside 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.
More single residents than 62% of compared French towns: 27%
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: 43% of the total. The usual figure: a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A higher share of graduates of higher education than 88% of compared French towns, at 45%
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
Nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town, against 12% in La Couvertoirade. Graduates of higher education make up 30% in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 210 to 2,582 people, the 15th 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.
Every neighbor is older than La Couvertoirade
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 La Couvertoirade
What is the population of La Couvertoirade?
210 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 19% more than in 2012 (177).
How old are La Couvertoirade’s residents?
The median age is 48.7, older than 78% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in La Couvertoirade?
92, with occasional dwellings: 44% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in La Couvertoirade?
INSEE counts 4 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.8% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in La Couvertoirade?
€20,320 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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