Older than 97% of compared French towns: half of Calès is over 58.1
The figure for households without a car is 3.3% in Calès and 11% in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 87% of compared French towns: 16% of households are couples with children. In 2023, the Census found 369 residents here, living in 180 households. 2.7% of households are headed by a manager or professional, or about one in 37.
Throughout this page, the Dordogne 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 Calès
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 86 second homes and occasional dwellings in Calès, 28% of its 300 homes: higher than in 95% 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 Calès’ residents are under 58.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 36% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Calès, 0.3% of homes are flats, fewer than in 99% 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
28% of homes are second homes (typical compared French town: 2.1%). Against that, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. Across Calès, 3.8% of households rent social housing (HLM). Empty homes are more common here than in 83% of compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, 84% of compared French towns grew faster than Calès: −4%
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, −1% in Dordogne.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of compared French towns: 4.7%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Calès 58.1. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 36%, against 22% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 5.5% in Calès, less than in 98% 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 Dordogne median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 2 people. The benchmark for single-parent households in the typical compared French town: 10%. For Calès, the census puts one-person households at 32%.
A typical living standard of €23,370 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.
Living standards centre on €23,370 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 78% of compared French towns.
Above 99% of compared French towns: 59% of households are headed by a retired person
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 manual worker make up about one in seven here (14%). 2.7% of Calès’ households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 59% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A higher share of foreign nationals than 64% of compared French towns, at 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 median compared commune in Dordogne has 5.4%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 53% of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in 15: 6.8% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
More married residents than 98% of compared French towns: 53%
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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, nearly a fifth of residents 15 and over are single in Calès. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Below 85% of compared French towns: 20% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
The share of adults with no qualification tops 73% of compared French towns: 24%. Typically, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 369 to 2,582 people: this is the 5th 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).
Calès is younger than 2 of its 3 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 Calès
What is the population of Calès?
369 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (383).
How old are Calès’ residents?
The median age is 58.1, older than 97% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 36% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Calès?
86, with occasional dwellings: 28% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Calès?
INSEE counts 25 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.8% of residents, and 22 foreign nationals (6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Calès?
€23,370 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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