Fewer flats than 99% of compared French towns: 1.9%
Households headed by a retired person make up 51%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. The share of single-parent households stands at 6.1%. At 1.2%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in 98% of compared French towns. There were 160 households in Le Chastang at the 2023 Census, home to 349 residents.
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 Le Chastang
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 23 second homes and occasional dwellings in Le Chastang, 11% of its 200 homes: higher than in 89% 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 ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Le Chastang had 366 residents at the 2012 census and 349 in 2023, down 5%: slower growth than in 87% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
11% of homes in Le Chastang are second 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
In the last two years, 4.3% of households moved in; at the other end, 22% have stayed 30 years or more. By way of comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Le Chastang has fewer households without a car than 89% of compared French towns, at 4.9%. 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town, against 10% in the town.
Le Chastang changed by −5% from 2012 to 2023, behind 87% 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 Corrèze town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved ±0%, then −4% to 2023.
A median age of 49.6: Le Chastang is older than 81% 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 Chastang 49.6. The median compared French town: 44.
28% of residents are 65 or over, against 22% in the typical compared French town. On the census count, one in ten residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
22% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 68% 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 Corrèze median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 2.2 people. The benchmark for couples with children in the typical compared French town: 25%. One-person households make up about one in three here (36%).
The middle resident’s standard of living: €23,820 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 midpoint of living standards here is €23,820 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 74% of compared French towns.
Le Chastang ranks below 94% of compared French towns on households headed by a manual worker: 6.1%
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manual worker come to 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 2.6% of residents are immigrants in Le Chastang
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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 86% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Corrèze has 6.1%. The wider picture: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Here, 1.8% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 21% of residents 15 and over are single in Le Chastang
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
Married residents: 41% here and 43% in the typical compared French town. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Only 16% of adults out of school have no qualification in Le Chastang
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
30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, against 27% in Le Chastang. Typically, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 349 to 2,582
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.
Le Chastang is younger than 2 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Le Chastang
What is the population of Le Chastang?
349 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% fewer than in 2012 (366).
How old are Le Chastang’s residents?
The median age is 49.6, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Chastang?
23, with occasional dwellings: 11% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Chastang?
INSEE counts 9 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.6% of residents, and 6 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Chastang?
€23,820 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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