Monceaux-le-Comte: 32% of homes are second homes, above 95% of compared French towns
The figure for flats is 4.3% in Monceaux-le-Comte and 30% in the typical compared French town. Locally, 13% of households are couples with children. Half of the town’s residents are over 49.7, older than in 82% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 128 residents and 71 households here.
Throughout this page, the Nièvre 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 Monceaux-le-Comte
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 46 second homes and occasional dwellings in Monceaux-le-Comte, 32% of its 140 homes: higher than in 95% 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 ↓
Many people living alone
60% of Monceaux-le-Comte’s households are one person: higher than in 99% of compared French towns; 49% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Monceaux-le-Comte had 139 residents at the 2012 census and 128 in 2023, down 8%: slower growth than in 94% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 26 homes empty (18%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Monceaux-le-Comte ranks above 99% of compared French towns on empty homes: 18%
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
Car-free households: one in 10, where the median compared French town has 11%. 9.7% of households have no car, or about one in ten. As a yardstick, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town.
From 2012 to 2023, 94% of compared French towns grew faster than Monceaux-le-Comte: −8%
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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −12%, then +5% to 2023.
27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 76% 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
■ Monceaux-le-Comte 49.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Nièvre 53.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Monceaux-le-Comte, 60% of households are one person living alone, more than in 99% 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 Nièvre median and the France median
Living alone · share
On average, 1.8 people share a household. Across the comparison, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. More single-parent households than in 89% of compared French towns: 13%.
Half above, half below €23,450 a year in 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.
Half of residents live in households above €23,450 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 77% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 92% of compared French towns: 6.7%
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 share of households headed by a retired person is 27%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Here, 13% of households are headed by a manager or professional.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Monceaux-le-Comte sits above 76% of compared French towns for foreign nationals (8.5%)
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.
Immigrants make up a share higher than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Nièvre has 5.9%. About one in 12: that is how common immigrants are in Monceaux-le-Comte (8.5%). Set beside that, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals 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.
Married residents make up 37% in Monceaux-le-Comte, less than in 85% 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
In Monceaux-le-Comte, 28% of residents 15 and over are single, beside 25% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
Above 78% of compared French towns: 39% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
Locally, 20% of adults out of school have no qualification. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 128 to 2,582
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).
Every neighbor is older than Monceaux-le-Comte
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 Monceaux-le-Comte
What is the population of Monceaux-le-Comte?
128 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 8% fewer than in 2012 (139).
How old are Monceaux-le-Comte’s residents?
The median age is 49.7, older than 82% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Monceaux-le-Comte?
46, with occasional dwellings: 32% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Monceaux-le-Comte?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.5% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (8.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Monceaux-le-Comte?
€23,450 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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