Half of Capdrot is over 62.8, older than 99% of compared French towns
Households in social housing: 1.6%, below 98% of compared French towns. 5.7% of homes are flats, or about one in 18. Capdrot has fewer households headed by a retired person than 84% of compared French towns, at 25%. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 458, in 190 households.
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 Capdrot
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 55 second homes and occasional dwellings in Capdrot, 20% of its 280 homes: higher than in 93% of compared French towns. 96% 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 Capdrot’s residents are under 62.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 45% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 21% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Capdrot had 509 residents at the 2012 census and 458 in 2023, down 10%: slower growth than in 97% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 32 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 20% of its homes
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
One household in 12 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. The share of households without a car stands at 8.4%. Empty homes are more common here than in 87% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
Since 2012, Capdrot has changed by −10%, slower than 97% 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
In two steps, −1% to 2017 and −9% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −1% in Dordogne.
45% of residents are 65 or over, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Capdrot 62.8. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Capdrot has 4.2%. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
58% women, 42% men
About 72 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
2.7% of households are single parents, below 99% 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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, just over a fifth of households are couples with children in Capdrot. Households average 2 people. Lower than in 55% of compared French towns: 34% of households are one person living alone. For single-parent households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 10%.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €21,530 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 €21,530 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 91% of compared French towns.
A lower share of households headed by a manager or professional than 99% of compared French towns, at 2.4%
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 stands at 14%. Across the comparison, 9.4% of 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).
Foreign nationals make up 7% in Capdrot, more than in 70% of compared French towns
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 immigrants tops nearly two thirds of compared French towns: 8.8%. On average, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
Only 17% of residents 15 and over are single in Capdrot
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
Just over two in five residents 15 and over are married (typical compared French town: 43%). The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
34% of adults out of school have no qualification, a share 98% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
A quarter of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, against 30% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 458 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 Capdrot (62.8), the oldest.
Capdrot 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 Capdrot
What is the population of Capdrot?
458 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 10% fewer than in 2012 (509).
How old are Capdrot’s residents?
The median age is 62.8, older than 99% of compared French towns. 11% are under 18 and 45% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Capdrot?
55, with occasional dwellings: 20% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Capdrot?
INSEE counts 40 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.8% of residents, and 32 foreign nationals (7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Capdrot?
€21,530 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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