Crégols is older than 99% of compared French towns: a median age of 61.1
Empty homes make up 1%, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Still, 44% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 92% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 87 residents and 49 households in Crégols. The share of couples with children stands at 11%.
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 Crégols
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 54 second homes and occasional dwellings in Crégols, 52% of its 100 homes: higher than in 98% 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 ↓
An older town
Half of Crégols’ residents are under 61.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 34% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 4.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 0 immigrants in Crégols (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 15% of residents, against 9.5% for the median compared commune in Lot. 14% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 52% of its homes
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
By its share of flats (1%), Crégols is below 99% of compared French towns. The benchmark for second homes in the typical compared French town: 2.1%. Households without a car account for 8.2%.
+9% since 2012, a pace 65% of compared French towns didn’t match
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 Lot town −1%.
Only 3.4% of residents are 15 to 24 in Crégols
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Crégols 61.1. The median compared French town: 44.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 34% in Crégols and 22% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 44%, a higher share than 82% 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
Average household size: 1.8 people. Few places have as many single-parent households: 11% here, more than in nearly two thirds of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 11%, a higher share than 60% 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
Households headed by a manual worker are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. For households headed by a manager or professional, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Crégols, 15% of residents are immigrants, more than in 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.
In Crégols, 14% of residents are foreign nationals, beside 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 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.
15% of residents 15 and over are single, below 99% 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
Married residents make up 51%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Adults with no qualification: 12%, a lower share than 90% 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 two fifths of Crégols’ residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 12% have no diploma (19%).
Of 41 French towns its size (87 to 2,582 people), the 3rd 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Every neighbor is younger than Crégols
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crégols | 61.1 | 34% | 52% | 15% |
| Cahors 20,050 · 12.1 mi | 49.5 | 30% | 6.1% | 12% |
| Pradines 3,617 · 14 mi | 49.7 | 29% | 2.8% | 9.7% |
| Villefranche-de-Rouergue 11,271 · 17.9 mi | 52.7 | 33% | 5.4% | 11% |
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 Crégols
What is the population of Crégols?
87 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (80).
How old are Crégols’ residents?
The median age is 61.1, older than 99% of compared French towns. 9.2% are under 18 and 34% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Crégols?
54, with occasional dwellings: 52% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Crégols?
INSEE counts 13 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 15% of residents, and 12 foreign nationals (14%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
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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