Half of Tarnac is over 58.4, older than 97% of compared French towns
32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 55% in Tarnac. On the census count, 13% of households are couples with children. Few places have so few flats: 2.7% here, fewer than in 99% of compared French towns. The town’s 190 households held 333 residents at the 2023 Census.
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 Tarnac
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 170 second homes and occasional dwellings in Tarnac, 43% of its 410 homes: higher than in 96% 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 Tarnac’s residents are under 58.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 41% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
47% of Tarnac’s households are one person: higher than in 89% of compared French towns; 39% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 96% of compared French towns: 43% of homes are second homes
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
13% of households moved in less than two years ago; 23% have been in their home 30 years or more. Second homes make up 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 93% of compared French towns: 3.2% of households rent social housing (HLM). In the median compared French town, just over one in ten households have no car; here, one in nine.
A +6% change since 2012: Tarnac grew faster than 54% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +8%, and from 2017 to 2023 −2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Corrèze town −1%.
Tarnac: 41% of residents are 65 or over, above 98% 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
■ Tarnac 58.4. The median compared French town: 44.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 3% in Tarnac and 11% in the typical compared French town. Set beside that, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Corrèze 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Fewer single-parent households than 98% of compared French towns: 5.3%
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
Average household size: 1.8 people. On one-person households, Tarnac sits higher than 89% of compared French towns: 47%. In the typical compared French town, single-parent households come to 10%.
Half above, half below €21,430 a year in standard of living
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 Tarnac’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €21,430 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 92% of compared French towns.
Only 2.6% of households are headed by a manual worker in Tarnac
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
5.3% of households are headed by a manager or professional; in the typical compared French town the figure is 9.4%. In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Above 82% of compared French towns: 10% of residents are foreign nationals
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.
Just over one in ten residents are immigrants (typical compared French town: 6.5%). To put it in context, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. Immigrants make up a share higher than in 75% 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.
In Tarnac, 28% of residents 15 and over are single, more than in 69% 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
Where 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, Tarnac has 41%. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Adults with no qualification make up 15% in Tarnac, less than in 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 census found that 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Tarnac. As a reference point, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (333 to 2,582 people), the 4th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
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 Tarnac
What is the population of Tarnac?
333 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% more than in 2012 (315).
How old are Tarnac’s residents?
The median age is 58.4, older than 97% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 41% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Tarnac?
170, with occasional dwellings: 43% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Tarnac?
INSEE counts 37 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 11% of residents, and 34 foreign nationals (10%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Tarnac?
€21,430 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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