Second homes: 39%, a higher share than 96% of compared French towns
Single-parent households: 16%, above 97% of compared French towns. Drugeac counted 321 residents and 160 households at the 2023 Census. Households in social housing: 3.9% of the total. Half of the town’s residents are over 49.4, older than in just over four fifths of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Cantal 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 Drugeac
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 120 second homes and occasional dwellings in Drugeac, 39% of its 320 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 98% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Drugeac had 354 residents at the 2012 census and 321 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 36 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
4.2% of homes are flats, fewer than in 97% 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
Empty homes: 12%, above 86% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 30% of homes are flats. Put another way, about one in nine: just over one in ten households have no car.
From 2012 to 2023, 96% of compared French towns grew faster than Drugeac: −9%
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
In two steps, −1% to 2017 and −8% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −3% in Cantal.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 6.7%, a lower share than 98% 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
■ Drugeac 49.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 22% in the typical compared French town, 26% of residents are 65 or over here. In the typical compared French town, 11% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Cantal 53.4%, France 51.8%.
In Drugeac, 22% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 66% 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 Cantal median and the France median
Living alone · share
In Drugeac, 33% of households are one person living alone, beside 35% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.1 people.
A median of €22,750 a year per consumption unit
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 Drugeac’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €22,750 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 83% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 3.2%, a lower share than 96% 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
Nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 43% in Drugeac. Still, this Cantal town has fewer households headed by a manual worker than 58% of compared French towns, at 13%. Households headed by a manager or professional make up 9.4% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 2.4%, a lower share than 87% 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.
1.5% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Cantal has 3.9%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 87% 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.
Below 94% of compared French towns: 19% of residents 15 and over are single
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
49% of residents 15 and over are married (typical compared French town: 43%). The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 90% of compared French towns: 18%
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
27% of adults out of school have no qualification (typical compared French town: 19%). Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 321 to 2,582 people: this is the 14th 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).
Of the 3 towns nearest Drugeac, 1 are older
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 Drugeac
What is the population of Drugeac?
321 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (354).
How old are Drugeac’s residents?
The median age is 49.4, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Drugeac?
120, with occasional dwellings: 39% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Drugeac?
INSEE counts 8 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.4% of residents, and 5 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Drugeac?
€22,750 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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