1.4% of households have no car, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns
30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, against 3.9% in Cintheaux. On single-parent households, Cintheaux sits lower than 88% of compared French towns: 7.1%. At the 2023 Census, 170 people lived locally, in 72 households. Locally, 1.3% of homes stand empty.
Throughout this page, the Calvados 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 Cintheaux
Fewer residents than in 2012
Cintheaux had 193 residents at the 2012 census and 170 in 2023, down 12%: slower growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower than most: −12% since 2012, behind 98% 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 whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Calvados town +1%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought −2%; 2017 to 2023, −11%.
9.4% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 74% 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
■ Cintheaux 45.4. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 45.4, Cintheaux is older than nearly three fifths of compared French towns. To put it in context, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. In Cintheaux, 20% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
In Cintheaux, 21% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 99% 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 Calvados median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children is 25%; Cintheaux has 21%. To put it in context, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households here average 2.4 people each.
5.2% of homes are second homes, a share 78% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 6.9% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 29%. The comparison figure for second homes is 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €28,000 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 Cintheaux’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €28,000 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 71% of compared French towns.
In Cintheaux, 14% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 74% 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
Set against 32% in the typical compared French town, 36% of households are headed by a retired person in Cintheaux. The town has more households headed by a manual worker than 53% of compared French towns, at 14%. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manager or professional come to 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.8% of residents are immigrants in Cintheaux
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.
0.6% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up 6.5% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Calvados has 3.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 94% 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.
A smaller share of single residents than 99% of compared French towns: 15%
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 Cintheaux, about four in ten. Elsewhere, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 86% of compared French towns: 13% of adults out of school have no qualification
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
Against a figure of 30% in the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education in Cintheaux comes in at 40%. Measured more widely, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
21st highest median age among 41 French towns of 170 to 2,582
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Cintheaux 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cintheaux | 45.4 | 20% | 5.2% | 1.8% |
| Bourguébus 2,613 · 4.3 mi | 34.6 | 9.8% | 0.2% | 2.3% |
| Saint-Martin-de-May 4,529 · 5.1 mi | 43.9 | 21% | 0.3% | 2.8% |
| Moult-Chicheboville 3,441 · 6.3 mi | 35.9 | 13% | 0.9% | 1.4% |
| Ifs 11,937 · 6.7 mi | 39.4 | 18% | 1.2% | 6.6% |
| Argences 3,959 · 7.1 mi | 43.4 | 24% | 0.8% | 1.8% |
| Cormelles-le-Royal 5,377 · 7.2 mi | 43.8 | 25% | 0.6% | 5.8% |
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 Cintheaux
What is the population of Cintheaux?
170 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% fewer than in 2012 (193).
How old are Cintheaux’s residents?
The median age is 45.4, older than 59% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cintheaux?
4, with occasional dwellings: 5.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cintheaux?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.8% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (0.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cintheaux?
€28,000 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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