A median age of 56.1: Bort-les-Orgues is older than 95% of compared French towns
Compared with 9.4% in the typical compared French town, 4.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional here. Bort-les-Orgues had 2,483 residents in 1,300 households at the 2023 census. About one in 12: that is how common second homes are in Bort-les-Orgues (8.2%). At 19%, the share of households without a car is higher than in four fifths of compared French towns.
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 Bort-les-Orgues
Fewer residents than in 2012
Bort-les-Orgues had 2,866 residents at the 2012 census and 2,483 in 2023, down 13%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Bort-les-Orgues’ residents are under 56.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 35% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 13% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
53% of Bort-les-Orgues’ households are one person: higher than in 97% of compared French towns; 38% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Empty homes
The census found 570 homes empty (28%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Bort-les-Orgues changed by −13% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 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
In two steps, −7% to 2017 and −7% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and −1% in Corrèze.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 94% of compared French towns, at 35%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Bort-les-Orgues 56.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Bort-les-Orgues has 7.3%. On average, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Corrèze 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
In Bort-les-Orgues, 13% of households are couples with children, fewer than in 96% 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 Corrèze median and the France median
Living alone · share
In the typical compared French town, one in ten households are single parents; in Bort-les-Orgues, 8.1%. Couples with children make up 25% in the typical compared French town. Locally, 53% of households are one person living alone.
Empty homes: 28%, 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
Just over a third of homes are flats (typical compared French town: 30%). The benchmark for empty homes in the typical compared French town: 6.7%. Locally, 4.9% of households rent social housing (HLM).
A median standard of living of €22,350 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 median standard of living in Bort-les-Orgues is €22,350 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 87% of compared French towns. Below the poverty threshold: 20.0% of the population.
A higher share of households headed by a manual worker than 84% of compared French towns, at 20%
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
38% of households are headed by a retired person (typical compared French town: 32%). On average, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 3.2% in Bort-les-Orgues, less than in 80% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Bort-les-Orgues comes in at 2.4%. Across the comparison, 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.
Bort-les-Orgues ranks below 90% of compared French towns on married residents: 35%
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 figure for single residents is 30% in Bort-les-Orgues and 25% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Bort-les-Orgues sits below 96% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (16%)
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
29% of adults out of school have no qualification, against 19% in the typical compared French town. For graduates of higher education, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 30%.
The 5th oldest of 41 French towns of 2,483 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 62.3 in Prayssac.
Nearby, 1 of 2 towns have older populations than Bort-les-Orgues
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 Bort-les-Orgues
What is the population of Bort-les-Orgues?
2,483 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% fewer than in 2012 (2,866).
How old are Bort-les-Orgues’ residents?
The median age is 56.1, older than 95% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 35% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Bort-les-Orgues?
170, with occasional dwellings: 8.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Bort-les-Orgues?
INSEE counts 80 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.2% of residents, and 60 foreign nationals (2.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Bort-les-Orgues?
€22,350 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 20.0% 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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