A higher share of second homes than 95% of compared French towns, at 28%
In the typical compared French town, the share of flats is 30%; Bar has 5.1%. This Corrèze town has fewer single-parent households than 91% of compared French towns, at 6.9%. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 311, in 140 households. Here, 7.2% of residents are 15 to 24.
Throughout this page, the Corrèze 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 Bar
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 62 second homes and occasional dwellings in Bar, 28% of its 220 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 98% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Households in social housing: 3.4%, a lower share than 92% 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
Here 4.9% of households have no car, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. To put it in context, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. In the last two years, 13% of households moved in; at the other end, 31% have stayed 30 years or more. On empty homes, Bar sits higher than 54% of compared French towns: 7.1%.
Slower growth than 76% of compared French towns: Bar changed by −2% since 2012
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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Corrèze town −1%.
Bar is older than 66% of compared French towns: a median age of 46.4
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bar 46.4. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 65 and over at 24%, Bar is ahead of 63% of compared French towns on that count.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 115 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Corrèze 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Bar ranks above 64% of compared French towns on one-person households: 39%
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 Corrèze median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, the share of couples with children is 25%; Bar has 27%. The usual figure: just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Households average 2.2 people.
Median standard of living: €23,970 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €23,970 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 72% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 21%, a higher share than 86% of compared French towns
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
Just over a third of households are headed by a retired person, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. The census found that 10% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Bar.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A lower share of immigrants than 80% of compared French towns, at 3.2%
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.
Foreign nationals make up 1.9%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Corrèze has 6.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 80% of compared French towns. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
22% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 79% 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, 40% of residents 15 and over are married here. In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Graduates of higher education: 37%, a higher share than 73% 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
Set against 19% in the typical compared French town, 16% of adults out of school have no qualification in Bar. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
18th highest median age among 41 French towns of 311 to 2,582
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
A younger town than 3 of the 6 around it: Bar
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 Bar
What is the population of Bar?
311 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% fewer than in 2012 (316).
How old are Bar’s residents?
The median age is 46.4, older than 66% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bar?
62, with occasional dwellings: 28% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bar?
INSEE counts 10 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.2% of residents, and 6 foreign nationals (1.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bar?
€23,970 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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