Older than 95% of compared French towns: half of Chameyrat is over 55.5
The figure for households in social housing is 2.8% in Chameyrat and 12% in the typical compared French town. In 2023, the Census found 1,481 residents locally, living in 720 households. Flats make up about one in 20 here (5.1%). Few places have so few households headed by a manual worker: 8.3% here, fewer than in 86% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Corrèze 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 Chameyrat
An older town
Half of Chameyrat’s residents are under 55.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 33% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8.4% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Chameyrat had 1,583 residents at the 2012 census and 1,481 in 2023, down 6%: slower growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
−6% since 2012, a pace below 92% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved −3%, and from 2017 to 2023 −4%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Corrèze town −1%.
Chameyrat ranks below 95% of compared French towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 7.5%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Chameyrat 55.5. The median compared French town: 44.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (33%), Chameyrat is above 91% of compared French towns. On average, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Corrèze 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Only 23% of households are couples with children in Chameyrat
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 Corrèze median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.1 people on average. Typically, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Lower than in just over three fifths of compared French towns: 33% of households are one person living alone. Single-parent households are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 9.7%.
Chameyrat ranks below 90% of compared French towns on households without a car: 4.7%
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 4.4% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 40%. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 4.9%, more than in just over three quarters of compared French towns. Set beside that, 11% of households have no car in the typical compared French town. The share of empty homes is 8.6%, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town.
€27,450 a year is the median standard of living here
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 Chameyrat is €27,450 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 65% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 41% in Chameyrat, more than in 85% 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
One in ten households are headed by a manager or professional. Households headed by a retired person: 32% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of foreign nationals than 69% of compared French towns, at 2.7%
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.
The figure for immigrants is 5.2% in Chameyrat and 6.5% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share lower than in just over three fifths of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Corrèze has 6.1%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
18% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns
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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, 52% of residents 15 and over are married in Chameyrat. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 80% of compared French towns, at 14%
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
Here, 29% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. The benchmark for adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town: 19%.
Among 41 French towns of 1,481 to 2,582 people, the 5th 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.
No nearby town is as old as Chameyrat
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 Chameyrat
What is the population of Chameyrat?
1,481 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% fewer than in 2012 (1,583).
How old are Chameyrat’s residents?
The median age is 55.5, older than 95% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 33% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Chameyrat?
41, with occasional dwellings: 4.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Chameyrat?
INSEE counts 77 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.2% of residents, and 40 foreign nationals (2.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Chameyrat?
€27,450 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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