Only 1.1% of homes are flats in Tourch
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 3.7% of households have no car here. 1,002 residents in 440 households: that is Tourch at the 2023 Census. Locally, 4.5% of households are headed by a manager or professional. This Finistère town has more second homes than 85% of compared French towns, at 7.8%.
Throughout this page, the Finistère 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.
Tourch changed by ±0% from 2012 to 2023, behind 69% 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 Finistère town changed +4% and the median compared French town +5%. Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved +2%, then −2% to 2023.
Older than 60% of compared French towns: half of Tourch is over 45.6
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Tourch 45.6. The median compared French town: 44.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (9.8%), Tourch is below 67% of compared French towns. Lower than in 64% of compared French towns: 20% of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Finistère 51.7%, France 51.8%.
In Tourch, 33% of households are couples with children, more than in 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 Finistère median and the France median
Living alone · share
Compared with 35% in the typical compared French town, a third of households are one person living alone here. The share of couples with children in the typical compared French town is 25%. Single-parent households make up about one in 13 here (7.6%).
A smaller share of households in social housing than 89% of compared French towns: 4.4%
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
In the last two years, 5.5% of households moved in; at the other end, 27% have stayed 30 years or more. By way of comparison, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. On empty homes, 7.3% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
€25,020 a year is the median standard of living here
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.
At €25,020 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 60% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 21%, a higher share than 85% 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
On the census count, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person. By way of comparison, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 86% of compared French towns: 2.5% of residents are immigrants
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.
Foreign nationals make up 1.7%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Finistère has 2.4%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 86% of compared French towns. 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.
Only 37% of residents 15 and over are married in Tourch
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
The figure for single residents is 27% in Tourch and 25% in the typical compared French town. On average, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Tourch ranks below 88% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 12%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%; Tourch has 25%. For comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
21st highest median age among 41 French towns of 1,002 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Tourch and its 6 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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 Tourch
What is the population of Tourch?
1,002 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (1,001).
How old are Tourch’s residents?
The median age is 45.6, older than 60% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tourch?
41, with occasional dwellings: 7.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tourch?
INSEE counts 25 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.5% of residents, and 17 foreign nationals (1.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tourch?
€25,020 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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