Half of Salles-Curan is over 55.9, older than 95% of compared French towns
By its share of couples with children (17%), Salles-Curan is below 84% of compared French towns. This Aveyron town counted 1,043 residents and 530 households at the 2023 Census. On the census count, 3.2% of households rent social housing (HLM). Compared with other places, households headed by a manager or professional are scarce here: 2.9%, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns.
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 Salles-Curan
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 440 second homes and occasional dwellings in Salles-Curan, 43% of its 1,040 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 77% 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 Salles-Curan’s residents are under 55.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 36% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 11% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
43% of homes in Salles-Curan are second 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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 7.4% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 35%. For comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few flats: 20% here, fewer than in 67% of compared French towns. There is little gap on empty homes: 6.2%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
−2% since 2012, a pace below 79% 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
The median Aveyron town changed +1% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −2% and the next six ±0%.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 95% of compared French towns: 36%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Salles-Curan 55.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, 8.4% of residents are 15 to 24 in Salles-Curan. For comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aveyron 52.1%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of one-person households than 66% of compared French towns: 39%
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
A household here holds 2 people on average. For comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. At 10%, single-parent households sit close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
At the median, €24,430 a year to live on
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 €24,430 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
Above 90% of compared French towns: 43% of households are headed by a retired person
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
The share of households headed by a manual worker stands at 13%. In the typical compared French town, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Salles-Curan ranks below 72% of compared French towns on immigrants: 4.1%
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 Salles-Curan, 3.3% of residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. 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.
More married residents than 83% of compared French towns: 48%
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 25% in the typical compared French town, 23% of residents 15 and over are single here. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 79% of compared French towns: 22%
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
Just over a quarter of adults out of school have no qualification, against 19% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,043 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.
Salles-Curan is older than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salles-Curan | 55.9 | 36% | 43% | 4.1% |
| Luc-la-Primaube 6,046 · 14.6 mi | 49.5 | 28% | 2.8% | 3.5% |
| Millau 22,044 · 15 mi | 49.2 | 27% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Saint-Affrique 7,941 · 15.7 mi | 49.9 | 30% | 8.8% | 5.8% |
| Olemps 3,559 · 16.2 mi | 51.6 | 30% | 2% | 3.6% |
| Rodez 23,981 · 16.4 mi | 41.7 | 24% | 4.3% | 11% |
| Sévérac d'Aveyron 4,026 · 16.5 mi | 51.1 | 30% | 20% | 4.1% |
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 Salles-Curan
What is the population of Salles-Curan?
1,043 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% fewer than in 2012 (1,068).
How old are Salles-Curan’s residents?
The median age is 55.9, older than 95% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 36% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Salles-Curan?
440, with occasional dwellings: 43% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Salles-Curan?
INSEE counts 43 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.1% of residents, and 34 foreign nationals (3.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Salles-Curan?
€24,430 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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