A median age of 61.8: Monpazier is older than 99% of compared French towns
The share of couples with children is 5.9%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. In 2023, the Census found 441 residents in Monpazier, living in 250 households. On the census count, a fifth of homes stand empty. 2.4% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 96% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Dordogne 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 Monpazier
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 67 second homes and occasional dwellings in Monpazier, 17% of its 390 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 93% 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 Monpazier’s residents are under 61.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 42% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 11% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Monpazier had 506 residents at the 2012 census and 441 in 2023, down 13%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many people living alone
56% of Monpazier’s households are one person: higher than in 99% of compared French towns; 38% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
17% of homes are second homes, a share 92% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Newcomers of less than two years account for 16% of households, residents of 30 years or more for 19%. The comparison figure for second homes is 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Lower than in 69% of compared French towns: 20% of homes are flats. In Monpazier, 14% of households have no car, beside 11% in the typical compared French town.
From 2012 to 2023, 99% of compared French towns grew faster than Monpazier: −13%
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
Over the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Dordogne town −1%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought −7%; 2017 to 2023, −7%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 42% in Monpazier, more than in 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
■ Monpazier 61.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Against a figure of 11% in the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Monpazier comes in at 5.6%. The usual figure: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%.
One-person households: 56%, a higher share than 99% 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 Dordogne median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 1.6 people. Single-parent households are rarer here than in four fifths of compared French towns. One-person households make up 35% in the typical compared French town.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €20,830 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 €20,830 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 94% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 90% of compared French towns, at 43%
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
The share of households headed by a manager or professional trails 75% of compared French towns: 6.1%. Households headed by a retired person make up 32% in the typical compared French town. Just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, or about one in eight.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
14% of residents are immigrants, a share 83% of compared French towns don’t reach
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 make up 12%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. For comparison, 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.
32% of residents 15 and over are married, below 96% 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
Just over a third of residents 15 and over are single; in the typical compared French town the figure is 25%. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 83% of compared French towns: 21%
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
Roughly two in ten: 18% of adults out of school have no qualification. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (441 to 2,582 people), the 2nd 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.
Every neighbor is younger than Monpazier
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 Monpazier
What is the population of Monpazier?
441 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% fewer than in 2012 (506).
How old are Monpazier’s residents?
The median age is 61.8, older than 99% of compared French towns. 9.1% are under 18 and 42% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Monpazier?
67, with occasional dwellings: 17% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Monpazier?
INSEE counts 62 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 14% of residents, and 52 foreign nationals (12%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Monpazier?
€20,830 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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