Older than 99% of compared French towns: half of Pradines is over 65.2
Couples with children make up 9.1%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Locally, 73% of households are headed by a retired person. Few places have as many households without a car: 13% here, more than in 61% of compared French towns. There were 50 households in Pradines at the 2023 Census, home to 92 residents.
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 Pradines
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 60 second homes and occasional dwellings in Pradines, 51% of its 120 homes: higher than in 97% of compared French towns. 97% 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 Pradines’ residents are under 65.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 51% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 17% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Pradines had 105 residents at the 2012 census and 92 in 2023, down 12%: slower growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
More second homes than 97% of compared French towns: 51%
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
Flats: 2.5%, below 99% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Newcomers of less than two years account for 11% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 33%. Few places have as many empty homes: 6.8% here, more than in 51% of compared French towns.
Pradines changed by −12% from 2012 to 2023, behind 98% 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
Here the change came as −13% to 2017, then +1% to 2023.
Residents aged 65 and over: 51%, a higher share than 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
■ Pradines 65.2. The median compared French town: 44.
5.1% of residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). Typically, 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.
One-person households: 45%, a higher share than 85% 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
At 9.1%, single-parent households sit close to the figure in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for one-person households is 35% in the typical compared French town. Average household size: 1.8 people.
A lower share of households headed by a manual worker than 82% of compared French towns, at 9.1%
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. To put it in context, 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).
More foreign nationals than 70% of compared French towns: 7.1%
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.
Immigrants make up a share higher than in 54% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Corrèze has 6.1%. The wider picture: 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. About one in 14: that is how common immigrants are in Pradines (7.1%).
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Pradines, 18% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 98% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Pradines has 46%. The usual figure: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A higher share of adults with no qualification than 98% of compared French towns, at 35%
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
30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town, against 23% in Pradines. As a yardstick, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 92 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 65.2 in Pradines.
Pradines is older than every town around it
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 Pradines
What is the population of Pradines?
92 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 12% fewer than in 2012 (105).
How old are Pradines’ residents?
The median age is 65.2, older than 99% of compared French towns. 11% are under 18 and 51% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pradines?
60, with occasional dwellings: 51% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pradines?
INSEE counts 7 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.1% of residents, and 7 foreign nationals (7.1%). 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 November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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