A median age of 56.5: Caurel is older than 96% of compared French towns
The share of households in social housing trails 99% of compared French towns: 0.5%. 16% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 87% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Caurel was home to 353 people in 200 households. Flats account for 1.8%.
Throughout this page, the Côtes-d'Armor 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 Caurel
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 210 second homes and occasional dwellings in Caurel, 47% of its 450 homes: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. 74% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Caurel’s residents are under 56.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 38% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 12% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
51% of Caurel’s households are one person: higher than in 95% of compared French towns; 39% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Caurel had 381 residents at the 2012 census and 353 in 2023, down 7%: slower growth than in 94% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Caurel, 47% of homes are second homes, more 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
Without a car: one household in 10, against 11% in the median compared French town. Few places have as many empty homes: 9.2% here, more than in nearly three quarters of compared French towns. Set beside that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
A change of −7% since 2012 leaves Caurel behind 94% 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
The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Côtes-d'Armor town +3%. The change was −6% from 2012 to 2017 and −2% from 2017 to 2023.
Caurel ranks above 97% of compared French towns on residents aged 65 and over: 38%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Caurel 56.5. The median compared French town: 44.
7% of residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%.
51% of households are one person living alone, more than in 95% 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 Côtes-d'Armor median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 1.8 people. At 5.1%, the share of single-parent households is lower than in 99% of compared French towns. As a reference point, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
A typical living standard of €24,270 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,270 a year: lower than in 68% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 55% in Caurel, more than in 99% 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
The share of households headed by a manual worker is 5%, against 14% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. 2.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional, or about one in 42.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A higher share of foreign nationals than 84% of compared French towns, at 11%
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.
Here just over one in ten residents are immigrants, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 6.5%. That is higher than in 78% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Côtes-d'Armor has 2.7%. In the typical compared French town, foreign nationals come to 4.3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Caurel, 17% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 99% 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
The share of married residents stands at 43%. For comparison, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 63% of compared French towns, at 26%
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
In Caurel, a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification. For graduates of higher education, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
The 5th oldest of 41 French towns of 353 to 2,582 people
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is younger than Caurel
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 Caurel
What is the population of Caurel?
353 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% fewer than in 2012 (381).
How old are Caurel’s residents?
The median age is 56.5, older than 96% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 38% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Caurel?
210, with occasional dwellings: 47% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Caurel?
INSEE counts 43 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 12% of residents, and 38 foreign nationals (11%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Caurel?
€24,270 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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