Photo: Pertuisallionis · CC BY-SA 4.0A median age of 48.2: Périgny is older than 75% of compared French towns
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, 20% of households are couples with children in Périgny. 8.9% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 83% of compared French towns. This Charente-Maritime town had 8,877 residents in 4,330 households at the 2023 census. In Périgny, 6.7% of households have no car.
Throughout this page, the Charente-Maritime 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.
Périgny grew +16% from 2012 to 2023, faster 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
Over those years, the median Charente-Maritime town changed +8% and the median compared French town +5%.
27% of residents are 65 or over, a share 76% of compared French towns don’t reach
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Périgny 48.2. The median compared French town: 44.
11% of residents are 15 to 24, a higher share than in 54% of compared French towns. Against that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Charente-Maritime 53.1%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Périgny: 37% of households are one person living alone, above 58% 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 Charente-Maritime median and the France median
Living alone · share
Each household has 2 people on average. To put it in context, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. At 9.7%, the share of single-parent households is lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
A lower share of empty homes than 85% of compared French towns, at 4.2%
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
Set against 12% in the typical compared French town, 14% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Périgny. Locally, 2.4% of homes are second homes. Few places have so few flats: 30% here, fewer than in half of compared French towns. The share of empty homes in the typical compared French town is 6.7%.
A median of €29,290 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.
Half of Périgny’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €29,290 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 80% of compared French towns. Living below the poverty line: 8.0% of residents.
16% of households are headed by a manager or professional, a share 79% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a retired person is 32%; Périgny has 34%. Households headed by a manager or professional: 9.4% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals: 2.7%, a lower share than 69% of compared French towns
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 immigrants is 4.8% in Périgny and 6.5% in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 65% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Charente-Maritime has 3.1%. The comparison figure for foreign nationals is 4.3% 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.
Périgny sits below 56% of compared French towns for married residents (42%)
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
The share of single residents stands at 25%. The usual figure: 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Périgny sits below 92% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (11%)
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
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, just over two in five adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Périgny. As a yardstick, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
7th highest median age among 41 French towns of 8,720 to 9,039
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 Cornebarrieu (36.4), the youngest, and Saint-Jean-de-Monts (60.2), the oldest.
Périgny and its 6 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Périgny | 48.2 | 27% | 2.4% | 4.8% |
| Aytré 9,746 · 1.9 mi | 42.7 | 24% | 4.5% | 4.9% |
| Puilboreau 6,765 · 2 mi | 50.1 | 30% | 4.9% | 4.7% |
| Dompierre-sur-Mer 6,315 · 2.3 mi | 47.4 | 25% | 2.6% | 3.8% |
| La Jarne 2,637 · 2.5 mi | 49.3 | 26% | 5.4% | 2.4% |
| La Rochelle 79,851 · 3 mi | 43.3 | 25% | 14% | 9.1% |
| Saint-Xandre 5,677 · 3.2 mi | 47.9 | 26% | 1.9% | 4.2% |
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 Périgny
What is the population of Périgny?
8,877 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 16% more than in 2012 (7,633).
How old are Périgny’s residents?
The median age is 48.2, older than 75% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Périgny?
110, with occasional dwellings: 2.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Périgny?
INSEE counts 430 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.8% of residents, and 240 foreign nationals (2.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Périgny?
€29,290 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 8.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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