A smaller share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 1.1%
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 97% of compared French towns: 7%. Compared with other places, households headed by a manager or professional are scarce here: 5.1%, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 529 people lived in Le Torquesne, in 220 households. One-person households: 17% of the total.
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 Le Torquesne
One home in seven is a second home
The census counted 36 second homes and occasional dwellings in Le Torquesne, 14% of its 260 homes: higher than in 90% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 14% of its 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
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in 25: 4% of homes stand empty.
+15% since 2012, a pace 82% of compared French towns didn’t match
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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +1% in Calvados. Here the change came as +11% to 2017, then +4% to 2023.
A median age of 46.4: Le Torquesne is older than 66% 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
■ Le Torquesne 46.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 65 and over come to 21% in Le Torquesne, about two in ten.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Calvados 52.0%, France 51.8%.
33% of households are couples with children, more than in 88% 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
The average household has 2.5 people. On single-parent households, Le Torquesne sits lower than 87% of compared French towns: 7.3%. Couples with children make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €28,100 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.
The median standard of living in Le Torquesne is €28,100 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 72% of compared French towns.
Below 66% of compared French towns: 12% of households are headed by a manual worker
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
Census figures put households headed by a retired person at 31% in Le Torquesne. For 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).
A lower share of immigrants than 90% of compared French towns, at 2.1%
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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 1% of residents are foreign nationals here. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Le Torquesne sits below 99% of compared French towns for single residents (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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Le Torquesne has 56%. By way of comparison, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 87% of compared French towns, at 12%
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
Graduates of higher education: 32% here and 30% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 529 to 2,582 people, the 18th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Le Torquesne is younger than 5 of its 6 nearest neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Torquesne | 46.4 | 21% | 14% | 2.1% |
| Pont-l'Évêque 5,145 · 4.6 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 4.2% | 2.2% |
| Lisieux 19,645 · 6 mi | 47 | 28% | 2.1% | 6.2% |
| Touques 3,913 · 9.5 mi | 49.8 | 29% | 23% | 7.3% |
| Deauville 3,539 · 10.3 mi | 63.3 | 47% | 73% | 7.2% |
| Trouville-sur-Mer 4,619 · 10.7 mi | 59.5 | 42% | 70% | 8% |
| Beuzeville 4,704 · 11.4 mi | 43.4 | 25% | 8% | 2.4% |
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 Le Torquesne
What is the population of Le Torquesne?
529 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% more than in 2012 (460).
How old are Le Torquesne’s residents?
The median age is 46.4, older than 66% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Torquesne?
36, with occasional dwellings: 14% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Torquesne?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.1% of residents, and 5 foreign nationals (1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Torquesne?
€28,100 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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