A smaller share of households in social housing than 95% of compared French towns: 2.6%
Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, 7.7% of residents are 15 to 24 in Lalbenque. This Lot town had 1,899 residents in 880 households at the 2023 Census. Here, 38% of households are headed by a retired person. Flats are rarer here than in 92% 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 Lalbenque
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 130 second homes and occasional dwellings in Lalbenque, 12% of its 1,100 homes: higher than in 90% 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 ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
12% of homes are second homes, more than in 90% 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
Of all households, 15% moved in during the last two years and 14% have stayed three decades or more. On average, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Lalbenque has fewer households without a car than 69% of compared French towns, at 7.5%. One household in 13 has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town.
From 2012 to 2023, Lalbenque outgrew 74% of compared French towns: +11%
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 those years, the median Lot town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%.
Lalbenque is older than 74% of compared French towns: a median age of 47.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Lalbenque 47.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Where 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Lalbenque has 26%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
Fewer couples with children than 61% of compared French towns: 23%
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
The typical household size is 2.1 people. The share of one-person households stands at 34%. Few places have so few single-parent households: 9.4% here, fewer than in 61% of compared French towns. The benchmark for couples with children in the typical compared French town: 25%.
At the median, €25,670 a year to live on
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 €25,670 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 53% of compared French towns.
Only 8.2% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Lalbenque
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
On the census count, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. Set beside that, 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).
Immigrants: 4.4%, a lower share than 69% 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.
2.4% of residents are foreign nationals; in the typical compared French town the figure is 4.3%. Elsewhere, 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.
Single residents make up 18% in Lalbenque, 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
Married people make up 50% and PACS partners 7.3%, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 6.2% are widowed. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 63% of compared French towns, at 17%
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
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, 32% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Lalbenque. Against that, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,899 to 2,582 people: this is the 15th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Lalbenque is younger 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 Lalbenque
What is the population of Lalbenque?
1,899 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% more than in 2012 (1,706).
How old are Lalbenque’s residents?
The median age is 47.9, older than 74% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lalbenque?
130, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lalbenque?
INSEE counts 84 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.4% of residents, and 46 foreign nationals (2.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Lalbenque?
€25,670 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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