A median age of 61: Montcabrier is older than 99% of compared French towns
Where 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, Montcabrier has 2.9%. Census day 2023: 342 residents and 170 households locally. Here, 8.3% of households are couples with children. On households headed by a retired person, Montcabrier sits higher than 98% of compared French towns: 51%.
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 Montcabrier
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 71 second homes and occasional dwellings in Montcabrier, 25% of its 280 homes: higher than in 94% 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 Montcabrier’s residents are under 61 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 41% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 37 homes empty (13%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes make up 25% in Montcabrier, 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Against that, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. In Montcabrier, 13% of homes stand empty. 4.3% of households have no car, against 11% in the typical compared French town.
Montcabrier’s population moved +1% on 2012, less than in 65% 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 years 2012 to 2017 brought +5%; 2017 to 2023, −4%.
Above 98% of compared French towns: 41% of residents are 65 or over
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Montcabrier 61. The median compared French town: 44.
5.1% of residents are 15 to 24; in the typical compared French town the figure is 11%. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
Fewer one-person households than 73% of compared French towns: 31%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of single-parent households is 10%; Montcabrier has 8.6%. The average household has 2 people. As a reference point, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €24,190 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.
At €24,190 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 69% of compared French towns.
A smaller share of households headed by a manager or professional than 80% of compared French towns: 5.7%
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
The census found that 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in Montcabrier. The share of households headed by a manager or professional 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).
Montcabrier sits above 84% of compared French towns for immigrants (14%)
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.
Just over one in ten residents are foreign nationals; in the typical compared French town the figure is 4.3%. The median compared commune in Lot has 9.5%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 84% of compared French towns. On average, 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.
In Montcabrier, 17% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer 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
52% of residents 15 and over are married, against 43% in the typical compared French town. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
In Montcabrier, 21% of adults out of school have no qualification, more than in 59% 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
Where 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, Montcabrier has 28%. Measured more widely, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 342 to 2,582 people, the 4th 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).
A younger town than 1 of the 4 around it: Montcabrier
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 Montcabrier
What is the population of Montcabrier?
342 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% more than in 2012 (338).
How old are Montcabrier’s residents?
The median age is 61, older than 99% of compared French towns. 8.6% are under 18 and 41% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Montcabrier?
71, with occasional dwellings: 25% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Montcabrier?
INSEE counts 49 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 14% of residents, and 42 foreign nationals (12%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Montcabrier?
€24,190 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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