Older than 97% of compared French towns: half of La Forêt-du-Temple is over 57.8
In La Forêt-du-Temple, 5.6% of households have no car, beside 11% in the typical compared French town. Census figures put flats at 1.5% locally. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census La Forêt-du-Temple was home to 143 people in 72 households.
Throughout this page, the Creuse 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 La Forêt-du-Temple
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 33 second homes and occasional dwellings in La Forêt-du-Temple, 24% of its 140 homes: higher than in 94% 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 La Forêt-du-Temple’s residents are under 57.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 36% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 31 homes empty (23%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
23% of homes stand empty, a share 99% 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
Without a car: one household in 18, against 11% in the median compared French town. Measured more widely, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. 24% of homes are second homes, or about one in four.
A −1% change since 2012: slower than 76% 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 Creuse town changed −5% and the median compared French town +5%.
4.9% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer 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
■ La Forêt-du-Temple 57.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Set against 22% in the typical compared French town, 36% of residents are 65 or over in La Forêt-du-Temple. As a yardstick, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 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: Creuse 52.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Single-parent households: 7.1%, a lower share than 88% 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 Creuse median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2 people. 21% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 68% of compared French towns. The share of single-parent households in the typical compared French town is 10%. Here 36% of households are one person living alone, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 35%.
€22,490 a year: the median standard of living
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.
Half of residents live in households above €22,490 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 86% of compared French towns.
La Forêt-du-Temple sits above 97% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (50%)
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
Compared with 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 7.1% of households are headed by a manager or professional here. Households headed by a manual worker are rarer here than in 90% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
More foreign nationals than 66% of compared French towns: 6.3%
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.
Set against 6.5% in the typical compared French town, 8.4% of residents are immigrants in La Forêt-du-Temple. For comparison, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share higher than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Creuse has 7.6%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Single residents: 14%, a lower share than 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
Married people make up 50% and PACS partners 3.9%, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 13% are widowed. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Adults with no qualification: 31%, a higher share than 93% 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
Against a figure of 30% in the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education in La Forêt-du-Temple comes in at 20%. Elsewhere, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
5th highest median age among 41 French towns of 143 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Every neighbor is younger than La Forêt-du-Temple
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 La Forêt-du-Temple
What is the population of La Forêt-du-Temple?
143 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (145).
How old are La Forêt-du-Temple’s residents?
The median age is 57.8, older than 97% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 36% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in La Forêt-du-Temple?
33, with occasional dwellings: 24% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in La Forêt-du-Temple?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.4% of residents, and 9 foreign nationals (6.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in La Forêt-du-Temple?
€22,490 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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