Tocqueville ranks below 99% of compared French towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 5.7%
2.4% of homes are flats (typical compared French town: 30%). Tocqueville is home to 258 residents in 130 households, by the 2023 Census. In Tocqueville, 4.4% of households have no car. Fewer couples with children than in 84% of compared French towns: 17%.
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 Tocqueville
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 40 second homes and occasional dwellings in Tocqueville, 22% of its 180 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 59% 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 Tocqueville’s residents are under 52 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 22% 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. For comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Just over one in ten households moved in less than two years ago; 31% have been in their home 30 years or more. Nothing unusual on empty homes: 7.4%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Tocqueville changed by −1% from 2012 to 2023, behind 73% 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 median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Manche town ±0%. The change was +7% from 2012 to 2017 and −7% from 2017 to 2023.
Tocqueville is older than 89% of compared French towns: a median age of 52
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Tocqueville 52. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over (typical compared French town: 22%).
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Manche 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Above 65% of compared French towns: 11% of households are single parents
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 here average 2 people each. Few places have as many one-person households: 36% here, more than in 52% of compared French towns. Typically, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €25,580 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 €25,580 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 54% of compared French towns.
Tocqueville: 23% of households are headed by a manual worker, above 92% 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 manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. For Tocqueville, the census puts households headed by a retired person at 33%. To put it in context, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Tocqueville ranks below 99% of compared French towns on immigrants: 0.4%
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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Tocqueville comes in at 0.4%. In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Above 91% of compared French towns: 50% of residents 15 and over are married
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 single residents is 20% in Tocqueville and 25% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 86% of compared French towns, at 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
Higher than in 55% of compared French towns: 20% of adults out of school have no qualification. Set beside that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 9th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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.
No nearby town is as old as Tocqueville
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tocqueville | 52 | 26% | 22% | 0.4% |
| Valognes 6,969 · 12.6 mi | 51 | 29% | 2.4% | 1.6% |
| Cherbourg-en-Cotentin 78,258 · 13.2 mi | 43.6 | 22% | 3.6% | 4.9% |
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 Tocqueville
What is the population of Tocqueville?
258 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (260).
How old are Tocqueville’s residents?
The median age is 52, older than 89% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tocqueville?
40, with occasional dwellings: 22% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tocqueville?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.4% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (0.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tocqueville?
€25,580 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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