Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux is older than 85% of compared French towns: a median age of 50.8
Against a figure of 12% in the typical compared French town, the share of households in social housing in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux comes in at 3.7%. Locally, 13% of homes are flats. 4.2% of homes are second homes, more than in 73% of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 1,054 residents locally, living in 500 households.
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 Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux
An older town
Half of Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux’s residents are under 50.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 28% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 74 homes empty (12%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
From 2012 to 2023, 82% of compared French towns grew faster than Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux: −3%
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 change was +2% from 2012 to 2017 and −6% from 2017 to 2023. The median compared French town changed +5% over the same years, the median Tarn town +7%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 81% of compared French towns, at 28%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux 50.8. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux has 9.6%. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Single-parent households make up 12% in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, more than in 80% 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
The typical household size is 2.1 people. Single-parent households make up 10% in the typical compared French town. The census found that a quarter of households are couples with children in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux.
Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux: 12% of homes stand empty, above 90% 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
Of all households, 10% moved in during the last two years and 19% have stayed three decades or more. For comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. One household in eight has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town.
€24,520 a year: the median 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 €24,520 a year: lower than in 66% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 85% of compared French towns, at 41%
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: 16%, above nearly two thirds of compared French towns. On average, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. In Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, 10% 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).
Foreign nationals make up 2.6% in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, less than in 70% 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 5%, against 6.5% in the typical compared French town. Typically, 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.
24% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 59% 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
42% of residents 15 and over are married. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Adults with no qualification make up 25% in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux, more than in 79% 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
With graduates of higher education at 27%, Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux is behind 62% of compared French towns on that count. On average, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 1,054 to 2,582 people, the 11th 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).
Median age: 1 of the 6 towns around Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux are older
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 Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux
What is the population of Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux?
1,054 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,090).
How old are Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux’s residents?
The median age is 50.8, older than 85% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux?
25, with occasional dwellings: 4.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux?
INSEE counts 53 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5% of residents, and 28 foreign nationals (2.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux?
€24,520 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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