Flats: 0.5%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
One-person households: 29%, below just over four fifths of compared French towns. Courcoury had 721 residents in 330 households at the 2023 census. Locally, 8% of residents are 15 to 24. At 8.6%, the share of second homes is higher than in 86% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Charente-Maritime 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.
Courcoury changed by +1% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 65% 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 those years, the median Charente-Maritime town changed +8% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −3%, then +4% to 2023.
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 80% 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
■ Courcoury 48.1. The median compared French town: 44.
With a median age of 48.1, Courcoury is older than three quarters of compared French towns. The usual figure: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%.
Courcoury sits below 62% of compared French towns for couples with children (23%)
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 Charente-Maritime median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2.2 people on average. As a yardstick, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. At 10%, the share of single-parent households is in line with the figure in the typical compared French town.
Households without a car make up 2.9% in Courcoury, less than in 99% 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
7.9% of homes stand empty, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Turnover: 6.6% of households moved in less than two years ago, and 21% have lived in their home 30 years or more. Households without a car: 11% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €26,200 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 €26,200 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional make up 16% in Courcoury, more than in 80% 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
Here 36% of households are headed by a retired person, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 32%. What’s more, households headed by a manual worker are more common here than in 65% of compared French towns. To put it in context, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 3.1% of residents are immigrants in Courcoury
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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Courcoury has 1.9%. 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.
A smaller share of single residents than 96% of compared French towns: 19%
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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 49% in Courcoury. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Adults with no qualification: 13%, a lower share than 85% of compared French towns
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
Roughly three in ten: 31% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. Set beside that, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 721 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th 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.
Every neighbor is older than Courcoury
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Courcoury | 48.1 | 28% | 8.6% | 3.1% |
| Chaniers 3,651 · 2 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 4% | 2% |
| Saintes 25,363 · 4.5 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 5.5% |
| Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux 2,843 · 8.4 mi | 51.3 | 30% | 2.4% | 2.1% |
| Pons 4,343 · 8.7 mi | 50.3 | 30% | 3.1% | 7.1% |
| Val-de-Cognac 3,471 · 10 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 3.9% | 3.1% |
| Gémozac 3,052 · 11.1 mi | 51.9 | 32% | 7.4% | 3.1% |
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 Courcoury
What is the population of Courcoury?
721 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% more than in 2012 (713).
How old are Courcoury’s residents?
The median age is 48.1, older than 75% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Courcoury?
34, with occasional dwellings: 8.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Courcoury?
INSEE counts 22 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.1% of residents, and 14 foreign nationals (1.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Courcoury?
€26,200 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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