Above 95% of compared French towns: 31% of homes are second homes
Set against 30% in the typical compared French town, 1.1% of homes are flats in Saint-Salvadour. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 332, in 160 households. The census found that 1.9% of households have no car locally. At 3.1%, the share of households headed by a manager or professional is lower than in 97% 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 Saint-Salvadour
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 82 second homes and occasional dwellings in Saint-Salvadour, 31% of its 260 homes: higher than in 95% 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 Saint-Salvadour’s residents are under 53.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.7% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Saint-Salvadour, 1.3% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 98% 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
In the last two years, one in ten households moved in; at the other end, 15% have stayed 30 years or more. At 8.4%, the share of empty homes is higher than in just over two thirds of compared French towns. By way of comparison, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town.
From 2012 to 2023, Saint-Salvadour outgrew 58% of compared French towns: +7%
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 −4% to 2017, then +11% to 2023. Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, −1% in Corrèze.
Older than 91% of compared French towns: half of Saint-Salvadour is over 53.2
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Saint-Salvadour 53.2. The median compared French town: 44.
In Saint-Salvadour, 30% of residents are 65 or over, beside 22% in the typical compared French town. 8.1% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Corrèze 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Saint-Salvadour sits below 70% of compared French towns for one-person households (31%)
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
Households average 2.1 people. Single-parent households are rarer here than in just over three fifths of compared French towns. Against that, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Couples with children make up 25%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €23,490 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.
Half of residents live in households above €23,490 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 77% of compared French towns.
13% of households are headed by a manual worker, below 60% 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
About one in three: that is how common households headed by a retired person are in Saint-Salvadour (31%). In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manual worker come to 14%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Saint-Salvadour, 3.6% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 77% 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.
Foreign nationals: 2.4% here and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. The usual figure: 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.
More married residents than 76% of compared French towns: 47%
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 is 24%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of adults with no qualification than 94% of compared French towns: 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
The share of graduates of higher education trails 69% of compared French towns: 25%. The comparison figure for adults with no qualification is 19% in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 7th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Saint-Salvadour 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 Saint-Salvadour
What is the population of Saint-Salvadour?
332 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (311).
How old are Saint-Salvadour’s residents?
The median age is 53.2, older than 91% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Salvadour?
82, with occasional dwellings: 31% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Salvadour?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.6% of residents, and 8 foreign nationals (2.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Salvadour?
€23,490 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 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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