Fewer flats than 99% of compared French towns: 2.6%
Where nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, Fénols has 18%. This Tarn town is home to 244 residents in 110 households, by the 2023 Census. 6.6% of residents are 15 to 24, or about one in 15. Lower than in 98% of compared French towns: 23% of households are one person living alone.
Throughout this page, the Tarn 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 Fénols
An older town
Half of Fénols’ residents are under 50.7 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 22% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 3.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +7% change since 2012: Fénols grew faster than 59% 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 Tarn town +7%.
Older than 85% of compared French towns: half of Fénols is over 50.7
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Fénols 50.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 22% in Fénols.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Fénols sits above 61% of compared French towns for couples with children (27%)
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 Tarn median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.3 people each. Fewer single-parent households than in nearly two thirds of compared French towns: 9.1%. Set beside that, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
5.7% of households have no car, fewer than in 83% 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
On empty homes, 6% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%. Of all households, 4.7% moved in during the last two years and 26% have stayed three decades or more.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €25,910 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €25,910 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 51% of compared French towns.
14% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 52% 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
On the census count, 9.1% 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).
A lower share of immigrants than 76% of compared French towns, at 3.7%
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, 2.9% of residents are foreign nationals in Fénols. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Fénols ranks below 99% of compared French towns on single residents: 14%
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
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Fénols comes in at 57%. In the typical compared French town, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single.
Only 11% of adults out of school have no qualification in Fénols
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
38% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. Across the comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 244 to 2,582 people: this is the 12th 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 6 around it: Fénols
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 Fénols
What is the population of Fénols?
244 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (228).
How old are Fénols’ residents?
The median age is 50.7, older than 85% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Fénols?
3, with occasional dwellings: 2.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Fénols?
INSEE counts 9 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.7% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (2.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Fénols?
€25,910 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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