Half of Le Puch is over 71, older than 99% of compared French towns
The share of empty homes is 3%, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Le Puch counted 27 residents and 19 households at the 2023 Census. Census figures put households headed by a manager or professional at 25% here. Fewer households without a car than in 90% of compared French towns: 4.8%.
Throughout this page, the Ariège 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 Le Puch
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 46 second homes and occasional dwellings in Le Puch, 69% of its 67 homes: higher than in 99% of compared French towns. 96% 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 Le Puch’s residents are under 71 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 70% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 10% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Le Puch had 41 residents at the 2012 census and 27 in 2023, down 34%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many people living alone
75% of Le Puch’s households are one person: higher than in 99% of compared French towns; 43% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes: 69%, a higher share than 99% 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
By its share of flats (3%), Le Puch is below 99% of compared French towns. 9.5% of households arrived within the last two years, while 29% have stayed 30 years or more. As a yardstick, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town.
−34% since 2012, a pace below 99% 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 Ariège town changed +2% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −29% and the next six −7%.
70% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 99% 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
■ Le Puch 71. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Against that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ariège 52.2%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
One-person households: 75%, a higher share than 99% 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 Ariège median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 1.4 people. For one-person households, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 35%.
Le Puch ranks above 99% of compared French towns on households headed by a retired person: 75%
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
25% of Le Puch’s households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 75% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A smaller share of immigrants than 79% of compared French towns: 3.3%
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.
The share of foreign nationals trails 60% of compared French towns: 3.3%. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Ariège has 9.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 79% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Le Puch, 17% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 99% 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
Compared with 43% in the typical compared French town, 53% of residents 15 and over are married here. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Adults with no qualification: 23%, a higher share than 71% 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
30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, against 27% in Le Puch. In the typical compared French town, adults with no qualification come to 19%.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 27 to 2,582 people
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 71 in Le Puch.
Every neighbor is younger than Le Puch
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 Le Puch
What is the population of Le Puch?
27 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 34% fewer than in 2012 (41).
How old are Le Puch’s residents?
The median age is 71, older than 99% of compared French towns. 0% are under 18 and 70% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Puch?
46, with occasional dwellings: 69% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Puch?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.3% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (3.3%). 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 November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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