A median age of 62: Lanet is older than 99% of compared French towns
Here 14% of households are single parents, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 10%. Lanet’s 37 households held 57 residents at the 2023 Census. About one in 20: that is how common households without a car are in Lanet (5.1%). Few places have so few empty homes: 2.3% here, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Aude 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 Lanet
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 53 second homes and occasional dwellings in Lanet, 58% of its 92 homes: higher than in 98% of compared French towns. 100% 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 Lanet’s residents are under 62 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 40% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 6.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
57% of Lanet’s households are one person: higher than in 99% of compared French towns; 38% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 0 immigrants in Lanet (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 20% of residents, against 6% for the median compared commune in Aude. 20% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 98% of compared French towns: 58% of homes are second homes
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. Across the comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. One in ten households arrived within the last two years, while 7.7% have stayed 30 years or more.
A growing town: +14% since 2012, faster than 80% 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
Over the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Aude town +4%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought ±0%; 2017 to 2023, +14%.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of compared French towns, at 40%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Lanet 62. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
38% women, 62% men
About 62 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 57%, 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 Aude median and the France median
Living alone · share
The typical household size is 1.5 people. The usual figure: 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 99% of compared French towns, at 57%
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
On the census count, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
20% of residents are immigrants, a share 93% of compared French towns don’t reach
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.
In the typical compared French town, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals; in Lanet, 20%. The median compared commune in Aude has 6%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 93% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 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.
Only 21% of residents 15 and over are single in Lanet
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Lanet has 45%. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Lanet ranks above 59% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 21%
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
At 29%, the share of graduates of higher education is lower than in 52% of compared French towns. The share of adults with no qualification in the typical compared French town is 19%.
Ranked by age, 2nd 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.
Every neighbor is younger than Lanet
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 Lanet
What is the population of Lanet?
57 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 14% more than in 2012 (50).
How old are Lanet’s residents?
The median age is 62, older than 99% of compared French towns. 3.3% are under 18 and 40% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lanet?
53, with occasional dwellings: 58% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lanet?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 20% of residents, and 11 foreign nationals (20%). 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 October 30, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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