Pamproux ranks below 98% of compared French towns on flats: 3.5%
Households headed by a manual worker: 27% here and 14% in the typical compared French town. 31% of residents are 65 or over, a higher share than in 88% of compared French towns. Pamproux counted 1,686 residents and 750 households at the 2023 Census. Single-parent households account for 6%.
Throughout this page, the Deux-Sèvres 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 Pamproux
Empty homes
The census found 130 homes empty (14%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A ±0% change since 2012: slower than 68% 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 change was +4%; from 2017 to 2023, −3%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Deux-Sèvres town +1%.
Pamproux is older than 85% of compared French towns: a median age of 50.6
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Pamproux 50.6. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24; in Pamproux, 8.1%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%.
Fewer couples with children than 64% of compared French towns: 22%
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 Deux-Sèvres median and the France median
Living alone · share
Where 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town, Pamproux has 33%. The benchmark for couples with children in the typical compared French town: 25%. The average household has 2.2 people.
Pamproux sits above 93% of compared French towns for empty homes (14%)
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
Where just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town, Pamproux has 9.3%. Across the comparison, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. For Pamproux, the census puts households in social housing at 4.9%. Second homes are more common here than in 73% of compared French towns.
Half above, half below €23,590 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.
The median standard of living in Pamproux is €23,590 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 76% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 4.8%, a lower share than 87% 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
Households headed by a retired person: 39% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. Against that, 9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 83% of compared French towns: 2.8% of residents are immigrants
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.
The median compared commune in Deux-Sèvres has 3.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 83% of compared French towns. For comparison, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. Census figures put foreign nationals at 2.4% in Pamproux.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Pamproux ranks below 98% of compared French towns on single residents: 18%
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
By its share of married residents (52%), Pamproux is above 95% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
A smaller share of graduates of higher education than 99% of compared French towns: 14%
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 adults with no qualification is 30%, against 19% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (1,686 to 2,582 people), the 12th 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.
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 1 are older than Pamproux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pamproux | 50.6 | 31% | 4.3% | 2.8% |
| Rouillé 2,533 · 4.2 mi | 42.6 | 22% | 2.9% | 2% |
| Saint-Maixent-l'École 7,595 · 7.6 mi | 35.5 | 21% | 2.7% | 7.6% |
| Lusignan 2,544 · 8.4 mi | 51.7 | 32% | 2.5% | 2.6% |
| Boivre-la-Vallée 3,024 · 12.2 mi | 42.1 | 18% | 3.1% | 1.8% |
| La Crèche 5,662 · 12.8 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 1.1% | 3.3% |
| Aigondigné 4,710 · 13 mi | 43.7 | 18% | 1.6% | 2.2% |
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 Pamproux
What is the population of Pamproux?
1,686 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (1,681).
How old are Pamproux’s residents?
The median age is 50.6, older than 85% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pamproux?
40, with occasional dwellings: 4.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pamproux?
INSEE counts 48 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.8% of residents, and 40 foreign nationals (2.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pamproux?
€23,590 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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