Photo: Trauenbaum · CC BY-SA 4.014% of households are single parents, more than in 92% of compared French towns
Households headed by a retired person: 25%, below just over four fifths of compared French towns. In Cournonterral, 17% of residents are 65 or over. 5.5% of households have no car, a lower share than in 84% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 7,359 residents and 3,040 households locally.
Throughout this page, the Hérault 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 Cournonterral
Growing fast
Cournonterral had 5,859 residents at the 2012 census and 7,359 in 2023, up 26%: faster growth than in 95% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Growth of +26% since 2012 puts Cournonterral ahead of 95% 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 the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Hérault town +13%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +4%; from 2017 to 2023, +20%.
A median age of 40.1: Cournonterral is younger than 79% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cournonterral 40.1. The median compared French town: 44.
11% of residents are 15 to 24, or about one in nine.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Cournonterral: 32% of households are couples with children, above 83% 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 Hérault median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 2.4 people. One-person households come to 28% in Cournonterral, about three in ten. For couples with children, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Cournonterral ranks below 66% of compared French towns on households in social housing: 8.8%
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
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, nearly a quarter of homes are flats in Cournonterral. The wider picture: just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. Here, 6.3% of homes stand empty. Lower than in 52% of compared French towns: 2% of homes are second homes.
Median living standard: €25,930 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.
Half of Cournonterral’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,930 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 51% of compared French towns. The share living below the poverty line is 15.0%.
A larger share of households headed by a manager or professional than 62% of compared French towns: 12%
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
13% of households are headed by a manual worker. Households headed by a manager or professional make up 9.4% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 6.1% of Cournonterral’s residents
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 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Hérault has 6.8%. The census found that 3.9% of residents are foreign nationals in Cournonterral.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Cournonterral, 40% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 70% 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
Here 28% of residents 15 and over are single, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of adults with no qualification than 71% of compared French towns: 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
By its share of graduates of higher education (36%), Cournonterral is above 69% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 7th youngest of 41 French towns of 7,276 to 7,444 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.
Ages run from 36 in Gières to 62.4 in Perros-Guirec.
Every neighbor is older than Cournonterral
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 Cournonterral
What is the population of Cournonterral?
7,359 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 26% more than in 2012 (5,859).
How old are Cournonterral’s residents?
The median age is 40.1, younger than 79% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cournonterral?
66, with occasional dwellings: 2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cournonterral?
INSEE counts 450 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.1% of residents, and 290 foreign nationals (3.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cournonterral?
€25,930 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 15.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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