Photo: Kev22 · CC BY-SA 4.0Only 11% of households are couples with children in Le Coteau
The share of households headed by a retired person is 44%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. 6,845 residents in 3,740 households: that is Le Coteau at the 2023 Census. Census figures put households without a car at 20% locally. Higher than in 86% of compared French towns: 63% of homes are flats.
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 Le Coteau
Many people living alone
53% of Le Coteau’s households are one person: higher than in 97% of compared French towns; 41% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
An older town
Half of Le Coteau’s residents are under 54.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 36% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 14% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Le Coteau changed by ±0% from 2012 to 2023, behind 68% 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 whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Loire town +3%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought +1%; 2017 to 2023, ±0%.
Older than 94% of compared French towns: half of Le Coteau is over 54.7
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Le Coteau 54.7. The median compared French town: 44.
In Le Coteau, 36% of residents are 65 or over, beside 22% in the typical compared French town. Locally, 9.1% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 81 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Le Coteau ranks above 97% of compared French towns on one-person households: 53%
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
A household here holds 1.8 people on average. One-person households: 35% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Le Coteau has more single-parent households than just over three fifths of compared French towns, at 11%.
More empty homes than 78% of compared French towns: 9.8%
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
Second homes make up 1.6%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are more common here than in 74% of compared French towns. Against that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Recent arrivals (under two years) make up 14% of households; long-stayers (30 years or more) 18%.
€23,520 a year: the median standard of living
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 Le Coteau’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €23,520 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 77% of compared French towns. Living below the poverty line: 19.0% of residents.
Le Coteau ranks below 79% of compared French towns on households headed by a manager or professional: 5.7%
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 census found that 15% of households are headed by a manual worker in Le Coteau. In the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.8% of residents in Le Coteau 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.
Put another way, about one in 20: 5.1% of residents are foreign nationals. That is higher than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Loire has 5.8%.
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 37% in Le Coteau, less than in 85% 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
28% of residents 15 and over are single, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification make up 29% in Le Coteau, more than in 89% 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
The share of graduates of higher education is 21%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 6,775 to 6,924 people: this is the 4th 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.
Douvaine is the youngest (37); Nyons the oldest (60.6).
No nearby town is as old as Le Coteau
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 Le Coteau
What is the population of Le Coteau?
6,845 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (6,815).
How old are Le Coteau’s residents?
The median age is 54.7, older than 94% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 36% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Coteau?
66, with occasional dwellings: 1.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Coteau?
INSEE counts 470 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.8% of residents, and 350 foreign nationals (5.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Coteau?
€23,520 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 19.0% 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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