Half of Cormatin is over 54.7, older than 93% of compared French towns
Set against 12% in the typical compared French town, 1.4% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Cormatin. Empty homes are rarer here than in 97% of compared French towns. The town’s 290 households held 569 residents at the 2023 Census. Across Cormatin, 56% of households are headed by a retired person.
Throughout this page, the Saône-et-Loire 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 Cormatin
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 110 second homes and occasional dwellings in Cormatin, 27% of its 410 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 78% 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 Cormatin’s residents are under 54.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 37% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 11% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A higher share of second homes than 94% of compared French towns, at 27%
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
17% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 15% moved in within the last two years. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 7.8%, fewer than in 91% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 2.1% of homes are second homes. Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, 14% of households have no car in Cormatin.
±0% since 2012, a pace below 69% 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 −2%; from 2017 to 2023, +2%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Saône-et-Loire town −3%.
37% of residents are 65 or over, a share 96% of compared French towns don’t reach
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Cormatin 54.7. The median compared French town: 44.
In Cormatin, nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24, beside 11% in the typical compared French town. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Saône-et-Loire 52.3%, France 51.8%.
Fewer couples with children than 85% of compared French towns: 17%
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 Saône-et-Loire median and the France median
Living alone · share
The share of one-person households is 46%, against 35% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for couples with children is 25% in the typical compared French town. Put another way, about one in 15: 6.8% of households are single parents.
Half above, half below €23,330 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €23,330 a year: lower than in 79% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 85% of compared French towns: 5.1%
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
10% of households are headed by a manual worker; in the typical compared French town the figure is 14%. By way of comparison, 9.4% of 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).
Cormatin: 6.5% of residents are immigrants
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 half of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Saône-et-Loire has 6.9%. The census found that 3.4% of residents are foreign nationals in Cormatin.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Cormatin, 39% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 74% 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
Compared with 25% in the typical compared French town, nearly a quarter of residents 15 and over are single here. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
Below 67% of compared French towns: 25% 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
Adults with no qualification: 21% here and 19% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 569 to 2,582 people: this is the 7th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Every neighbor is younger than Cormatin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cormatin | 54.7 | 37% | 27% | 6.5% |
| Cluny 4,942 · 7.7 mi | 49.2 | 30% | 7.9% | 9.5% |
| Tournus 5,701 · 10.3 mi | 51.2 | 31% | 3.2% | 6.9% |
| Sennecey-le-Grand 2,895 · 10.9 mi | 48.7 | 27% | 3.1% | 6.2% |
| Givry 3,598 · 16.6 mi | 51.2 | 28% | 4.1% | 2.4% |
| Saint-Rémy 6,410 · 16.8 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 1.1% | 6.5% |
| Charnay-lès-Mâcon 8,227 · 17.1 mi | 48.3 | 27% | 2.9% | 6% |
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 Cormatin
What is the population of Cormatin?
569 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (568).
How old are Cormatin’s residents?
The median age is 54.7, older than 93% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 37% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Cormatin?
110, with occasional dwellings: 27% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Cormatin?
INSEE counts 37 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.5% of residents, and 19 foreign nationals (3.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Cormatin?
€23,330 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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