A median age of 64.1: Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives is older than 99% of compared French towns
Here 57% of households are headed by a retired person, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 32%. In Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives, 3.4% of households have no car. Flats are rarer here than in 85% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 367, in 180 households.
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 Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives
An older town
Half of Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives’ residents are under 64.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 47% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives had 405 residents at the 2012 census and 367 in 2023, down 9%: slower growth than in 96% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 100 immigrants in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 16% of residents, against 9.1% for the median compared commune in Ariège. 5.9% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives changed by −9% from 2012 to 2023, behind 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
In two steps, −4% to 2017 and −5% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +2% in Ariège.
In Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives, 47% 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
■ Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives 64.1. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 6.1%, Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives is behind 99% of compared French towns on that count. For comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ariège 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Below 96% of compared French towns: 13% 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 Ariège median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2 people on average. At 5.4%, the share of single-parent households is lower than in 98% of compared French towns. The share of couples with children in the typical compared French town is 25%. The figure for one-person households is 30% in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives and 35% in the typical compared French town.
Empty homes: 7.8%, a higher share than 62% 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. Elsewhere, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. For Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives, the census puts second homes at 2.9%.
Median standard of living: €24,470 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €24,470 a year: lower than in 66% of compared French towns.
Below 72% of compared French towns: 11% of households are headed by a manual worker
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 manager or professional are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. The benchmark for households headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town: 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives ranks above 87% of compared French towns on immigrants: 16%
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 figure for foreign nationals is 5.9% in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 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.
In Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives, 59% of residents 15 and over are married, more 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
25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town, against 16% in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives. The share of married residents in the typical compared French town is 43%.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 98% of compared French towns, at 14%
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
Just over a third of adults out of school have no qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 19%. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 367 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives (64.1), the oldest.
No nearby town is as old as Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives | 64.1 | 47% | 2.9% | 16% |
| Lavelanet 5,987 · 1.2 mi | 54.4 | 33% | 12% | 14% |
| Mirepoix 3,172 · 11.4 mi | 55.1 | 35% | 13% | 10% |
| Foix 9,934 · 13.5 mi | 46.8 | 27% | 7.6% | 15% |
| Tarascon-sur-Ariège 3,085 · 14.5 mi | 51.4 | 32% | 8% | 18% |
| Varilhes 3,487 · 14.8 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 3.7% | 4.1% |
| Quillan 2,978 · 16.1 mi | 59.1 | 38% | 19% | 14% |
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-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives
What is the population of Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives?
367 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% fewer than in 2012 (405).
How old are Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives’ residents?
The median age is 64.1, older than 99% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 47% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives?
6, with occasional dwellings: 2.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives?
INSEE counts 59 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 16% of residents, and 22 foreign nationals (5.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Jean-d'Aigues-Vives?
€24,470 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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