Half of Grézels is over 62.1, older than 99% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, 30% of homes are flats; in Grézels, 1.5%. The share of empty homes stands at 3.4%. Few places have so few households without a car: 5.1% here, fewer than in 88% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census Grézels was home to 235 people in 120 households.
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 Grézels
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 81 second homes and occasional dwellings in Grézels, 39% of its 210 homes: higher than in 96% of compared French towns. 100% 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 Grézels’ residents are under 62.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 41% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8.5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Grézels had 258 residents at the 2012 census and 235 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Grézels sits above 96% of compared French towns for second homes (39%)
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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. 31% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 9.2% moved in within the last two years. Car-free households: one in 20, where the median compared French town has 11%.
A change of −9% since 2012 leaves Grézels behind 96% 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 change was −13% from 2012 to 2017 and +5% from 2017 to 2023.
Residents aged 65 and over: 41%, a higher share than 98% 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
■ Grézels 62.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Against a figure of 11% in the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Grézels comes in at 7.2%. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
17% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 86% 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
Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. One-person households account for 38%. The usual figure: a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
€25,480 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.
Half of residents live in households above €25,480 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a retired person than 97% of compared French towns: 50%
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
Where 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town, Grézels has 17%. In Grézels, just over one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 12% in Grézels, more than in 88% 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.
The figure for immigrants is 13% in Grézels and 6.5% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals. Immigrants make up a share higher than in just over four fifths of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Lot has 9.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
58% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 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
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, 20% of residents 15 and over are single here. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Grézels ranks below 70% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 16%
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
Compared with 30% in the typical compared French town, 33% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification here. In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%.
Of 41 French towns its size (235 to 2,582 people), the 2nd 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Older than Grézels: 1 of the 5 towns nearby
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 Grézels
What is the population of Grézels?
235 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (258).
How old are Grézels’ residents?
The median age is 62.1, older than 99% of compared French towns. 8% are under 18 and 41% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Grézels?
81, with occasional dwellings: 39% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Grézels?
INSEE counts 31 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 13% of residents, and 29 foreign nationals (12%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Grézels?
€25,480 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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