Audes: 16% of homes stand empty, above 97% of compared French towns
Against a figure of 14% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker in Audes comes in at 29%. At the 2023 Census, 402 people lived in the town, in 200 households. For Audes, the census puts households in social housing at 2.6%. Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Allier 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 Audes
Fewer residents than in 2012
Audes had 443 residents at the 2012 census and 402 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Empty homes
The census found 42 homes empty (16%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Audes has changed by −9%, slower than 96% 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 population moved −2%, and from 2017 to 2023 −7%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Allier town −1%.
Audes sits below 91% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (8.2%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Audes 49.5. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 26%, against 22% in the typical compared French town. The median age in Audes is 49.5, higher than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. The wider picture: 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Allier 52.6%, France 51.8%.
Audes: 38% of households are one person living alone, above 64% 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 Allier median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.1 people. For comparison, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Few places have so few couples with children: 24% here, fewer than in 57% of compared French towns. Audes sits close to the norm on single-parent households: 10%, about the same as in the typical compared French town.
Second homes make up 8.8% in Audes, more than in 87% 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, 8.2% moved in during the last two years and 24% have stayed three decades or more. 5.7% of households have no car, fewer than in 82% of compared French towns. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%.
Standard of living at the median: €24,430 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.
Half of residents live in households above €24,430 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a retired person than 94% of compared French towns: 20%
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
By its share of households headed by a manager or professional (7.5%), Audes is below 63% of compared French towns. On average, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 63% of compared French towns: 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.
3.5% of residents are foreign nationals, or about one in 29. On average, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Above 95% of compared French towns: 51% of residents 15 and over are married
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
Here just over a fifth of residents 15 and over are single, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 72% of compared French towns: 15%
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
Few places have so few graduates of higher education: 29% here, fewer than in 54% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 402 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
4 of 6 neighbors are older than Audes
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 Audes
What is the population of Audes?
402 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (443).
How old are Audes’ residents?
The median age is 49.5, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Audes?
23, with occasional dwellings: 8.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Audes?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5% of residents, and 14 foreign nationals (3.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Audes?
€24,430 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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