A lower share of households in social housing than 99% of compared French towns, at 0.1%
Compared with 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 2.8% of households are headed by a manager or professional here. Cours-de-Pile’s 710 households held 1,585 residents at the 2023 Census. About one in four: that is how common one-person households are in Cours-de-Pile (26%). More second homes than in 78% of compared French towns: 5.2%.
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 Cours-de-Pile
An older town
Half of Cours-de-Pile’s residents are under 50.6 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.2% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of +4% since 2012 leaves Cours-de-Pile behind 55% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +3%, and from 2017 to 2023 ±0%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Dordogne town −1%.
Cours-de-Pile is older than 85% of compared French towns: a median age of 50.6
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cours-de-Pile 50.6. The median compared French town: 44.
In Cours-de-Pile, 29% of residents are 65 or over, beside 22% in the typical compared French town. Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.9% of the total.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Couples with children make up 23% in Cours-de-Pile, less than in 63% 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
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. Elsewhere, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. There is little gap on single-parent households: 10%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns, at 2.8%
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
Recent arrivals (under two years) make up one in ten households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 26%. Households without a car make up 11% in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few flats: 2.3% here, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns. Empty homes are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 7.5%.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €25,480 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 Cours-de-Pile is €25,480 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 46%, a higher share than 94% 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
Put another way, about one in eight: 13% of households are headed by a manual worker. 2.8% of Cours-de-Pile’s households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 46% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Cours-de-Pile ranks below 61% of compared French towns on immigrants: 5.2%
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 census found that 3.4% of residents are foreign nationals in Cours-de-Pile. Typically, 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.
Single residents: 18%, a lower share than 98% 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 residents make up 48%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Cours-de-Pile ranks below 76% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 15%
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
25% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, against 30% in the typical compared French town. On average, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,585 to 2,582 people), the 12th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
4 of 6 neighbors are older than Cours-de-Pile
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cours-de-Pile | 50.6 | 29% | 5.2% | 5.2% |
| Bergerac 27,110 · 3.5 mi | 52.5 | 34% | 4.6% | 9.1% |
| Prigonrieux 4,374 · 7.2 mi | 52.6 | 31% | 1.6% | 3.7% |
| Lamonzie-Saint-Martin 2,742 · 8 mi | 46.9 | 25% | 3.9% | 4.6% |
| La Force 2,702 · 9.1 mi | 50.4 | 28% | 3.4% | 4.2% |
| Lalinde 2,931 · 9.3 mi | 58.7 | 39% | 9.8% | 5.2% |
| Eymet 2,569 · 13.9 mi | 61.2 | 42% | 14% | 19% |
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 Cours-de-Pile
What is the population of Cours-de-Pile?
1,585 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% more than in 2012 (1,531).
How old are Cours-de-Pile’s residents?
The median age is 50.6, older than 85% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cours-de-Pile?
42, with occasional dwellings: 5.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cours-de-Pile?
INSEE counts 83 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.2% of residents, and 54 foreign nationals (3.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cours-de-Pile?
€25,480 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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