Below 99% of compared French towns: 0.9% of homes are flats
Households headed by a retired person: 49%, above 97% of compared French towns. About one in 24: that is how common single-parent households are in Mazirat (4.2%). This Allier town has fewer households without a car than 82% of compared French towns, at 5.8%. In 2023, the Census found 273 residents here, living in 130 households.
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 Mazirat
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 62 second homes and occasional dwellings in Mazirat, 28% of its 220 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 97% 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 Mazirat’s residents are under 51.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 28% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 29 homes empty (13%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Mazirat ranks above 95% of compared French towns on second homes: 28%
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
The share of empty homes tops 91% of compared French towns: 13%. As a reference point, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. 27% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 3.7% moved in within the last two years. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
−4% since 2012: slower than 84% 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 change was −1% from 2012 to 2017 and −3% from 2017 to 2023.
A median age of 51.5: Mazirat is older than 87% of compared French towns
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Mazirat 51.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, nearly one in ten residents are 15 to 24 here. Residents aged 65 and over account for 28%.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Allier 52.6%, France 51.8%.
Below 71% of compared French towns: 21% of households are couples with children
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
Where 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Mazirat has 37%. The usual figure: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
The median resident lives on €23,090 a year per consumption unit
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 median standard of living in Mazirat is €23,090 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 81% of compared French towns.
Mazirat sits below 94% of compared French towns for households headed by a manager or professional (3.8%)
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. In the typical compared French town, 9.4% 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).
Mazirat ranks below 62% of compared French towns on immigrants: 5.1%
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.
Across Mazirat, 4% of residents are foreign nationals. Against that, 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.
A larger share of married residents than 70% of compared French towns: 46%
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
Single residents make up 23%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
In Mazirat, 27% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, fewer than in 61% 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
In Mazirat, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification. On average, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 10th oldest of 41 French towns this size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
4 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Mazirat
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 Mazirat
What is the population of Mazirat?
273 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 4% fewer than in 2012 (284).
How old are Mazirat’s residents?
The median age is 51.5, older than 87% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 28% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Mazirat?
62, with occasional dwellings: 28% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Mazirat?
INSEE counts 14 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.1% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Mazirat?
€23,090 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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