2.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns
The figure for second homes is 9.4% in Cametours and 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The town is home to 434 residents in 190 households, by the 2023 Census. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 7.6%.
Throughout this page, the Manche 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 Cametours
Empty homes
The census found 28 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Cametours changed by +2% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 62% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the change was −1%; from 2017 to 2023, +3%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Manche town ±0%.
A median age of 42.9: Cametours is younger than 59% 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
■ Cametours 42.9. The median compared French town: 44.
21% of residents are 65 or over, or about one in five.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Manche 52.0%, France 51.8%.
31% of households are couples with children, more than in 81% 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 Manche median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households average 2.3 people. By way of comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. At 7.9%, the share of single-parent households is lower than in 81% of compared French towns. On top of that, in the typical compared French town, 35% of households are one person living alone; in Cametours, 32%.
A lower share of households without a car than 95% of compared French towns, at 3.8%
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
4.9% of households moved in less than two years ago; 20% have been in their home 30 years or more. In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Here just over one in ten homes stand empty, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 6.7%.
€24,860 a year: the median standard of living
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.
The median standard of living in Cametours is €24,860 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 62% of compared French towns.
21% of households are headed by a manual worker, more than in 87% 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 retired person make up 40%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. For households headed by a manual worker, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A smaller share of immigrants than 95% of compared French towns: 1.6%
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.
Set against 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 1.6% of residents are foreign nationals in Cametours. The usual figure: 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 17% in Cametours, less 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
The figure for married residents is 49% in Cametours and 43% in the typical compared French town. To put it in context, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Cametours ranks below 85% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 20%
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
Against a figure of 19% in the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification in Cametours comes in at 24%. By way of comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (434 to 2,582 people), the 10th youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
No nearby town is as young as Cametours
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cametours | 42.9 | 21% | 9.4% | 1.6% |
| Marigny-Le-Lozon 2,761 · 2.9 mi | 43.7 | 24% | 2.1% | 1.1% |
| Saint-Sauveur-Villages 3,208 · 7.1 mi | 47.4 | 25% | 8.1% | 1.8% |
| Coutances 8,321 · 7.3 mi | 49 | 28% | 3.9% | 5.6% |
| Bourgvallées 3,326 · 7.5 mi | 43.1 | 21% | 3.3% | 2.1% |
| Agneaux 4,286 · 8.1 mi | 49.8 | 29% | 1.3% | 3.2% |
| Saint-Lô 19,471 · 9.4 mi | 43.3 | 24% | 2.2% | 6.2% |
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 Cametours
What is the population of Cametours?
434 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (426).
How old are Cametours’ residents?
The median age is 42.9, younger than 59% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cametours?
22, with occasional dwellings: 9.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cametours?
INSEE counts 7 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.6% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (1.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cametours?
€24,860 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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