Couples with children: 48%, a higher share than 99% of compared French towns
3.6% of households have no car (typical compared French town: 11%). There were 530 households in Cercottes at the 2023 Census, home to 1,448 residents. Residents aged 65 and over account for 13%. Fewer flats than in 92% of compared French towns: 7.3%.
Throughout this page, the Loiret 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 Cercottes
A town of families
48% of households are couples with children and 3.7% single parents with children; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Growth of +8% since 2012 puts Cercottes ahead of 62% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was +9%; from 2017 to 2023, −1%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Loiret town +6%.
Half of Cercottes is under 39.9, younger than 80% 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
■ Cercottes 39.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, against 13% in Cercottes.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
In Cercottes, 23% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 97% 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 Loiret median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households: 3.7% here and 10% in the typical compared French town. A household here holds 2.7 people on average. The comparison figure for one-person households is 35% in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of empty homes than 89% of compared French towns, at 3.9%
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
At 1.5%, second homes sit close to the figure in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing make up about one in 17 here (5.9%). The wider picture: 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town.
Standard of living at the median: €28,100 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 residents live in households above €28,100 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 72% of compared French towns.
A smaller share of households headed by a retired person than 93% of compared French towns: 21%
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
Households headed by a manager or professional: 16% here and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Cercottes has more households headed by a manual worker than 75% of compared French towns, at 18%. On average, 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).
More immigrants than 64% of compared French towns: 8.6%
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.
The median compared commune in Loiret has 9.8%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 64% of compared French towns. The benchmark for immigrants in the typical compared French town: 6.5%. On the census count, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
48% of residents 15 and over are married, more 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
About one in four: that is how common single residents are in Cercottes (26%). In the median compared French town 43% are married and 6.1% in a PACS; here it is 48% and 7.1%, and 3% are widowed.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 73% 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
Graduates of higher education: 33% here and 30% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town: 19%.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,448 to 2,582 people), the 2nd youngest
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).
Cercottes is younger than 5 of its 6 nearest neighbors
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 Cercottes
What is the population of Cercottes?
1,448 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% more than in 2012 (1,343).
How old are Cercottes’ residents?
The median age is 39.9, younger than 80% of compared French towns. 27% are under 18 and 13% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cercottes?
9, with occasional dwellings: 1.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cercottes?
INSEE counts 120 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.6% of residents, and 62 foreign nationals (4.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cercottes?
€28,100 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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