Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Meyrals.
History
Meyrals keeps more of its old housing than Dordogne’s towns or compared French towns: 19% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Meyrals has 5 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 2 classé, the highest protection, and 3 inscrit, the second level. Among the classé monuments locally is Grotte de Bernifal. The earliest of these monuments dates from prehistory.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Who lives here
Meyrals has fewer young adults than Dordogne’s towns or compared French towns: 5.8% are 15 to 24
Nearly a quarter of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 18%, above both Dordogne’s towns (13%) and compared French towns (17%). Degrees are held by 31% of adults.
48.1median age
MeyralsDordogne medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
24%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma17%
CAP or BEP28%
Baccalauréat17%
Higher education31%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Dordogne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Work & commute
Only 3.9% of commuters in Meyrals go to work without a car, fewer than in Dordogne’s towns and across compared French towns
The median disposable income was €23,590 a year per consumption unit, near Dordogne’s towns (€23,610) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970). 100 jobs are based in Meyrals, for 300 working residents (0.3 per worker). The unemployment rate comes to 9.6%.
4%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving89%
On foot2%
Public transport2%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Bicycle0%
100
jobs based in Meyrals, 0.3 per working resident
9.6%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€23,590
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
Château de la Roque: Photo: Manfred Heyde · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Grotte dite Sous le Grand Lac: Photo: Thilo Parg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Église Saint-Eutrope: Photo: Michel Chanaud · CC BY-SA 4.0
Famous people from Meyrals
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Meyrals yet.
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
About Meyrals
Commune in Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Meyrals is a commune of 715 people in the Communauté de communes Vallée de la Dordogne et Forêt Bessède. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
Population
715 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Vallée de la Dordogne et Forêt Bessède
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.
