Missècle ranks below 99% of compared French towns on households without a car: 2.5%
Where 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, Missècle has 2%. Households headed by a retired person: half of the total. At 13%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 88% of compared French towns. There were 44 households locally at the 2023 Census, home to 93 residents.
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 Missècle
An older town
Half of Missècle’s residents are under 52.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 32% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 0% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 8 homes empty (14%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A change of +2% since 2012 leaves Missècle behind 61% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, +7% in Tarn.
Missècle is older than 90% of compared French towns: a median age of 52.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Missècle 52.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 22% in the typical compared French town, 32% of residents are 65 or over here.
Women and men · all residents
43% women, 57% men
About 75 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Missècle: 13% of households are single parents, above 83% 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 Tarn median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2.1 people each. At 38%, the share of one-person households is higher than in three fifths of compared French towns. As a yardstick, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Couples with children are about as common here as in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Missècle: 14% of homes stand empty, above 93% 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
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. In Missècle, 6.9% of homes are second homes.
The largest group of households: retired (50%)
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 manual worker are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 1.2% in Missècle, less than in 91% of compared French towns
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 73% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Tarn has 6%. For Missècle, the census puts immigrants at 11%. The comparison figure for foreign nationals is 4.3% 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 35% in Missècle, more than in 92% 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
With married residents at 41%, Missècle is behind 64% of compared French towns on that count. The usual figure: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
16% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, below 96% of compared French towns
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
The share of adults with no qualification tops 70% of compared French towns: 23%. In the typical compared French town, graduates of higher education come to 30%.
Of 41 French towns its size (93 to 2,582 people), the 8th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is younger than Missècle
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 Missècle
What is the population of Missècle?
93 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (91).
How old are Missècle’s residents?
The median age is 52.8, older than 90% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Missècle?
4, with occasional dwellings: 6.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Missècle?
INSEE counts 10 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 11% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (1.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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