Piégut-Pluviers is older than 98% of compared French towns: a median age of 59.6
Households headed by a retired person: 48% here and 32% in the typical compared French town. The share of empty homes stands at 13%. Flats are rarer here than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put Piégut-Pluviers’s population at 1,180, in 670 households.
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 Piégut-Pluviers
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 150 second homes and occasional dwellings in Piégut-Pluviers, 16% of its 950 homes: higher than in 92% of compared French towns. 98% 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 Piégut-Pluviers’ residents are under 59.6 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 41% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 14% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Many people living alone
49% of Piégut-Pluviers’ households are one person: higher than in 92% of compared French towns; 43% of residents 65 and over live alone. Households ↓
Fewer residents than in 2012
Piégut-Pluviers had 1,244 residents at the 2012 census and 1,180 in 2023, down 5%: slower growth than in 88% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Above 92% of compared French towns: 16% 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
One household in six has no car, against 11% in the median compared French town. For Piégut-Pluviers, the census puts households without a car at 17%. At 7.4%, the share of households in social housing is lower than in nearly three quarters of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, 2.1% of homes are second homes.
Piégut-Pluviers’s population moved −5% on 2012, less than in 88% 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 −6%, and from 2017 to 2023 +1%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Dordogne town −1%.
41% of residents are 65 or over, 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
■ Piégut-Pluviers 59.6. The median compared French town: 44.
4.4% of residents are 15 to 24 (typical compared French town: 11%). Across the comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Dordogne 52.7%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Couples with children: 11%, a lower share than 98% 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
Set against 10% in the typical compared French town, 6.6% of households are single parents in Piégut-Pluviers. One-person households are more common here than in 92% of compared French towns. As a reference point, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. The average household has 1.8 people.
Half above, half below €22,280 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.
At €22,280 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 87% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manager or professional: 3.7%, a lower share than 95% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manual worker is 14%; Piégut-Pluviers has 16%. The share of households headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals make up 9% in Piégut-Pluviers, more than in 79% 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.
Compared with 6.5% in the typical compared French town, one in ten residents are immigrants here. The median compared commune in Dordogne has 5.4%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 70% of compared French towns. The share of foreign nationals in the typical compared French town is 4.3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 99% of compared French towns: 17%
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
46% of residents 15 and over are married (typical compared French town: 43%). The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Piégut-Pluviers sits below 97% of compared French towns for graduates of higher education (15%)
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
Adults with no qualification make up 31%, against 19% in the typical compared French town. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
Ranked by age, 4th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Piégut-Pluviers is older than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piégut-Pluviers | 59.6 | 41% | 16% | 10% |
| Nontron 3,057 · 6.5 mi | 54.9 | 35% | 10% | 6.8% |
| Rochechouart 3,603 · 15.6 mi | 56.7 | 37% | 11% | 6.4% |
| La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois 4,025 · 17.2 mi | 53.8 | 34% | 4.5% | 2.9% |
| Thiviers 2,876 · 17.8 mi | 54.3 | 35% | 9.2% | 7.3% |
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 Piégut-Pluviers
What is the population of Piégut-Pluviers?
1,180 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% fewer than in 2012 (1,244).
How old are Piégut-Pluviers’ residents?
The median age is 59.6, older than 98% of compared French towns. 13% are under 18 and 41% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Piégut-Pluviers?
150, with occasional dwellings: 16% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Piégut-Pluviers?
INSEE counts 120 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 10% of residents, and 110 foreign nationals (9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Piégut-Pluviers?
€22,280 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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