Fewer flats than 99% of compared French towns: 0.9%
The share of households without a car is 3.4%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Cresserons had 1,068 residents in 440 households at the 2023 census. 2.6% of homes stand empty. Few places have so few households headed by a manual worker: 5.7% here, fewer than in 95% of compared French towns.
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 Cresserons
Fewer residents than in 2012
Cresserons had 1,205 residents at the 2012 census and 1,068 in 2023, down 11%: slower growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Cresserons’ residents are under 52.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 4.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Cresserons’s population moved −11% on 2012, less than in 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and +1% for the median Calvados town, the change came in two steps: −5% from 2012 to 2017, then −7% to 2023.
A median age of 52.3: Cresserons is older than 90% 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
■ Cresserons 52.3. The median compared French town: 44.
In Cresserons, just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over, beside 22% in the typical compared French town. Roughly one in ten: just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Cresserons sits below 99% of compared French towns for one-person households (18%)
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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, 28% of households are couples with children in Cresserons. To put it in context, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 2.4 people on average.
In Cresserons, 7% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 76% 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
4.8% of households arrived within the last two years, while 32% have stayed 30 years or more. To put it in context, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. On second homes, 2.2% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €30,660 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 €30,660 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 87% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 41% in Cresserons, more than in 87% 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 manager or professional: 18%, above 85% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 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).
Cresserons ranks below 95% of compared French towns on immigrants: 1.7%
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 Cresserons comes in at 1%. As a reference point, 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 99% of compared French towns: 56%
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
In Cresserons, just over a fifth of residents 15 and over are single, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
Only 14% of adults out of school have no qualification in Cresserons
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
The figure for graduates of higher education is 40% in Cresserons and 30% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,068 to 2,582 people), the 8th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
2 of 6 neighbors are older than Cresserons
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cresserons | 52.3 | 26% | 2.2% | 1.7% |
| Douvres-la-Délivrande 5,143 · 1.3 mi | 48.9 | 27% | 3% | 4% |
| Luc-sur-Mer 3,275 · 1.7 mi | 56.9 | 37% | 27% | 2.5% |
| Hermanville-sur-Mer 3,323 · 1.9 mi | 51.2 | 28% | 30% | 1.9% |
| Colleville-Montgomery 2,586 · 2.6 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 14% | 2.1% |
| Biéville-Beuville 3,840 · 3.5 mi | 45.6 | 23% | 1.1% | 3.1% |
| Ouistreham 9,212 · 4.1 mi | 56.3 | 36% | 25% | 2.8% |
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 Cresserons
What is the population of Cresserons?
1,068 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% fewer than in 2012 (1,205).
How old are Cresserons’ residents?
The median age is 52.3, older than 90% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cresserons?
10, with occasional dwellings: 2.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cresserons?
INSEE counts 18 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cresserons?
€30,660 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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