A smaller share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 2.9%
The share of couples with children is 31%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. With a median age of 49.9, Saint-Solve is older than 83% of compared French towns. There were 200 households here at the 2023 Census, home to 450 residents. Put another way, about one in 22: 4.5% of homes are flats.
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-Solve
One home in nine is a second home
The census counted 29 second homes and occasional dwellings in Saint-Solve, 11% of its 250 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 95% 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.
Second homes make up 11% in Saint-Solve, more than in 89% 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
7.5% of households rent social housing (HLM); in the typical compared French town the figure is 12%. More empty homes than in 81% of compared French towns: 10%. For second homes, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 2.1%.
Faster growth than 51% of compared French towns: Saint-Solve changed by +5% 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
The years 2012 to 2017 brought +7%; 2017 to 2023, −2%.
Saint-Solve: 12% of residents are 15 to 24, above 80% 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
■ Saint-Solve 49.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, or about one in five. Elsewhere, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Corrèze 51.9%, France 51.8%.
29% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 81% 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
Each household has 2.3 people on average. By way of comparison, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, single-parent households are scarce here: 10%, fewer than in 50% of compared French towns.
Standard of living at the median: €24,820 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 €24,820 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 62% of compared French towns.
More households headed by a manager or professional than 84% of compared French towns: 18%
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
29% of households are headed by a retired person (typical compared French town: 32%). Few places have as many households headed by a manual worker: 15% here, more than in 59% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manager or professional come to 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 4.4% of residents are immigrants in Saint-Solve
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.
2.8% of residents are foreign nationals; in the typical compared French town the figure is 4.3%. In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants. Immigrants make up a share lower than in 70% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Corrèze has 6.1%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
45% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 66% of compared French towns don’t reach
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 Saint-Solve, 25% of residents 15 and over are single. Married residents make up 43% in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification: 15%, a lower share than 75% 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
The figure for graduates of higher education is 32% in Saint-Solve and 30% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (450 to 2,582 people), the 14th oldest
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).
Median age: 1 of the 6 towns around Saint-Solve are older
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-Solve
What is the population of Saint-Solve?
450 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (428).
How old are Saint-Solve’s residents?
The median age is 49.9, older than 83% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Solve?
29, with occasional dwellings: 11% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Solve?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.4% of residents, and 13 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Solve?
€24,820 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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