A median age of 53.2: Corlay is older than 91% of compared French towns
The share of flats trails 89% of compared French towns: 8.9%. Households in social housing make up about one in 23 here (4.4%). More households headed by a retired person than in 93% of compared French towns: 46%. At the 2023 Census Corlay was home to 914 people in 450 households.
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 Corlay
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 81 second homes and occasional dwellings in Corlay, 13% of its 630 homes: higher than in 90% 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
Corlay had 994 residents at the 2012 census and 914 in 2023, down 8%: slower growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Corlay’s residents are under 53.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 17% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 100 homes empty (16%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
16% of homes stand empty, a share 97% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Where just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town, Corlay has 12%. Compared with other places, second homes are common here: 13%, more than in 90% of compared French towns. Empty homes: 6.7% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Corlay changed by −8% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 95% 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 the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Côtes-d'Armor town +3%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought −4%; 2017 to 2023, −4%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 93% of compared French towns: 34%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Corlay 53.2. The median compared French town: 44.
In Corlay, 9.6% of residents are 15 to 24, beside 11% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Côtes-d'Armor 52.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Only 6.6% of households are single parents in Corlay
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
Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children in Corlay comes in at 18%. The census found that 44% of households are one person living alone in the town. Typically, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €23,360 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 median standard of living in Corlay is €23,360 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 78% of compared French towns.
Only 2.2% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Corlay
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
14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town, against 25% in Corlay. Set beside that, 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).
Corlay sits below 68% of compared French towns for immigrants (4.6%)
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 share of foreign nationals trails 62% of compared French towns: 3.2%. The median compared commune in Côtes-d'Armor has 2.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 68% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A lower share of married residents than 61% of compared French towns, at 41%
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
Against a figure of 25% in the typical compared French town, the share of single residents in Corlay comes in at 24%. Elsewhere, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Only 21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Corlay
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
Just over a quarter of adults out of school have no qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 19%. In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%.
41 French towns of 914 to 2,582 people: this is the 7th 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).
Older than Corlay: 1 of the 6 towns nearby
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 Corlay
What is the population of Corlay?
914 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% fewer than in 2012 (994).
How old are Corlay’s residents?
The median age is 53.2, older than 91% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Corlay?
81, with occasional dwellings: 13% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Corlay?
INSEE counts 42 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.6% of residents, and 29 foreign nationals (3.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Corlay?
€23,360 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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