Cheust ranks below 99% of compared French towns on couples with children: 11%
The share of flats trails 92% of compared French towns: 6.9%. Census day 2023: 85 residents and 41 households in Cheust. Locally, 44% of households are headed by a retired person. Compared with other places, empty homes are scarce here: 4.3%, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Hautes-Pyrénées 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 Cheust
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 27 second homes and occasional dwellings in Cheust, 38% of its 71 homes: higher than in 96% 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 Cheust’s residents are under 53.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A larger share of second homes than 96% of compared French towns: 38%
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Measured more widely, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Of all households, 2.4% moved in during the last two years and 36% have stayed three decades or more.
A +2% change since 2012: slower than 60% 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, +4% to 2017 and −1% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and ±0% in Hautes-Pyrénées.
Cheust is older than 92% of compared French towns: a median age of 53.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cheust 53.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 5.7% of residents are 15 to 24 here. Across Cheust, just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 81 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Hautes-Pyrénées 53.4%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of single-parent households than 99% of compared French towns, at 22%
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 Hautes-Pyrénées median and the France median
Living alone · share
The figure for one-person households is 33% in Cheust and 35% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Households here average 2.1 people each.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 70% of compared French towns: 11%
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
9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town, against 11% in Cheust. The usual figure: 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).
Cheust: 5.7% of residents are foreign nationals, above 62% 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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 56% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Hautes-Pyrénées has 7.4%. The benchmark for foreign nationals in the typical compared French town: 4.3%. Put another way, about one in 18: 5.7% 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.
In Cheust, 39% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 74% 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
The figure for single residents is 24% in Cheust and 25% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Below 93% of compared French towns: 17% 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
Adults with no qualification: 25% here and 19% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, the share of graduates of higher education is 30%.
Among 41 French towns of 85 to 2,582 people, the 7th 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).
Nearby, 3 of 6 towns have older populations than Cheust
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheust | 53.8 | 26% | 38% | 5.7% |
| Lourdes 13,266 · 4.5 mi | 55.1 | 34% | 12% | 16% |
| Argelès-Gazost 2,761 · 6.7 mi | 59.7 | 41% | 27% | 5.1% |
| Bagnères-de-Bigorre 7,114 · 6.8 mi | 56 | 37% | 43% | 7.5% |
| Juillan 3,999 · 10.1 mi | 50.5 | 29% | 2.1% | 5.2% |
| Odos 3,265 · 10.2 mi | 50.2 | 29% | 1.7% | 5.2% |
| Barbazan-Debat 3,478 · 11.4 mi | 50.1 | 30% | 2% | 5.6% |
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 Cheust
What is the population of Cheust?
85 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (83).
How old are Cheust’s residents?
The median age is 53.8, older than 92% of compared French towns. 11% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cheust?
27, with occasional dwellings: 38% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cheust?
INSEE counts 5 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.7% of residents, and 5 foreign nationals (5.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
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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