Older than 99% of compared French towns: half of Moncontour is over 64.2
2.4% of households rent social housing (HLM) (typical compared French town: 12%). Moncontour has fewer single-parent households than 93% of compared French towns, at 6.5%. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 738, in 220 households. The census found that 42% of households are headed by a retired person here.
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 Moncontour
One home in seven is a second home
The census counted 49 second homes and occasional dwellings in Moncontour, 14% of its 360 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 ↓
An older town
Half of Moncontour’s residents are under 64.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 49% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 26% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Moncontour had 939 residents at the 2012 census and 738 in 2023, down 21%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 92 homes empty (25%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More empty homes than 99% of compared French towns: 25%
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
Car-free households: one in six, where the median compared French town has 11%. 14% of homes are second homes, a higher share than in 90% of compared French towns. Against that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Across Moncontour, 18% of households have no car.
−21% since 2012, a pace below 99% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +3% in Côtes-d'Armor. Here the change came as −8% to 2017, then −15% to 2023.
In Moncontour, 49% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 99% 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
■ Moncontour 64.2. The median compared French town: 44.
In Moncontour, 5% of residents are 15 to 24, beside 11% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Moncontour: 49% of households are one person living alone, above 92% 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
Each household has 1.9 people on average. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%. Couples with children are rarer here than in 74% of compared French towns.
A median of €22,520 a year per consumption unit
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 €22,520 a year: lower than in 85% of compared French towns.
In Moncontour, 6.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 73% 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
More households headed by a manual worker than in 56% of compared French towns: 15%. Against 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).
A lower share of immigrants than 75% of compared French towns, at 3.8%
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, 3.6% of residents are foreign nationals. As a yardstick, 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.
Married residents make up 22% in Moncontour, less 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
35% of residents 15 and over are single; in the typical compared French town the figure is 25%. Married residents: 43% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Adults with no qualification make up 44% in Moncontour, more than in 99% 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
With graduates of higher education at 16%, Moncontour is behind 95% of compared French towns on that count. Across the comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 738 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Moncontour (64.2), the oldest.
Moncontour is older than every town around it
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 Moncontour
What is the population of Moncontour?
738 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 21% fewer than in 2012 (939).
How old are Moncontour’s residents?
The median age is 64.2, older than 99% of compared French towns. 10% are under 18 and 49% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Moncontour?
49, with occasional dwellings: 14% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Moncontour?
INSEE counts 28 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.8% of residents, and 27 foreign nationals (3.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Moncontour?
€22,520 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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