Households headed by a manager or professional: 1.2%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
The share of single-parent households is 3.6%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. Cremeaux has fewer households without a car than 88% of compared French towns, at 4.9%. At the 2023 Census, 914 people lived locally, in 420 households. Here, 1.6% of households rent social housing (HLM).
Throughout this page, the Loire 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 Cremeaux
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 58 second homes and occasional dwellings in Cremeaux, 11% of its 540 homes: higher than in 88% of compared French towns. 93% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Empty homes
The census found 64 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes make up 11% in Cremeaux, more than in 88% of compared French towns
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
7.1% of households arrived within the last two years, while 26% have stayed 30 years or more. By way of comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 86% of compared French towns: 11% of homes are flats. In the typical compared French town, the share of empty homes is 6.7%; Cremeaux has 12%.
A −1% change since 2012: slower than 72% 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
The median Loire town changed +3% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −2% and the next six +1%.
A median age of 49: Cremeaux is older 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
■ Cremeaux 49. The median compared French town: 44.
26% of residents are 65 or over (typical compared French town: 22%). Meanwhile, at 9%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 81% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
A higher share of couples with children than 64% of compared French towns, at 28%
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 Loire median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.2 people each. At 34%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 55% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
€23,750 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.
Living standards centre on €23,750 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 74% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a retired person than 94% of compared French towns: 46%
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
The figure for households headed by a manual worker is 16% in Cremeaux and 14% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Cremeaux sits below 96% of compared French towns for immigrants (1.5%)
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: 0.2% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: 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.
Married residents make up 48% in Cremeaux, more than in 81% 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
23% of residents 15 and over are single (typical compared French town: 25%). In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
In Cremeaux, 21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns
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
Nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town, against 23% in Cremeaux. Elsewhere, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 15th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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.
Median age: 3 of the 6 towns around Cremeaux 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 Cremeaux
What is the population of Cremeaux?
914 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (919).
How old are Cremeaux’s residents?
The median age is 49, older than 79% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cremeaux?
58, with occasional dwellings: 11% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cremeaux?
INSEE counts 14 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 2 foreign nationals (0.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cremeaux?
€23,750 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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