Cazals is older than 99% of compared French towns: a median age of 62.9
Households headed by a retired person make up 52%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Cazals counted 659 residents and 330 households at the 2023 Census. Here, nearly one in ten homes are flats. Few places have so few households in social housing: 4.1% here, fewer than in 90% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Lot 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 Cazals
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 110 second homes and occasional dwellings in Cazals, 24% of its 460 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 97% 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 Cazals’ residents are under 62.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 46% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 15% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Cazals, 24% of homes are second homes, more than in 94% 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
Long tenure is the mark of 13% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 15% (under two years). To put it in context, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. 8.6% of households have no car, a lower share than in 62% of compared French towns. Empty homes: 5.3% here and 6.7% in the typical compared French town.
From 2012 to 2023, Cazals outgrew 65% of compared French towns: +9%
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 compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Lot town −1%.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 99% of compared French towns: 46%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cazals 62.9. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 4.1%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Cazals, 15% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 91% 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 Lot median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 1.9 people each. Across the comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, single-parent households are scarce here: 6.4%, fewer than in 94% of compared French towns. 36% of households are one person living alone (typical compared French town: 35%).
A median of €24,230 a year per consumption unit
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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,230 a year: lower than in 69% of compared French towns.
1.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns
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
Here just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 14%. The wider picture: nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Cazals: 11% of residents are foreign nationals, above 85% 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 12%, against 6.5% in the typical compared French town. That is higher than in 79% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Lot has 9.5%. The comparison figure for foreign nationals is 4.3% 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.
Single residents make up 18% in Cazals, less than in 98% 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
51% of residents 15 and over are married, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Adults with no qualification: 27%, a higher share than 83% 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
Just over a fifth of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, against 30% in the typical compared French town. The share of adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town is 19%.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 659 to 2,582 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Cazals the oldest (62.9).
Cazals is older than every town around it
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 Cazals
What is the population of Cazals?
659 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (607).
How old are Cazals’ residents?
The median age is 62.9, older than 99% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 46% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cazals?
110, with occasional dwellings: 24% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cazals?
INSEE counts 82 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 12% of residents, and 73 foreign nationals (11%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cazals?
€24,230 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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