2% of homes are flats, below 99% of compared French towns
The share of single-parent households is 5.3%, against 10% in the typical compared French town. 9.4% of homes are second homes, or about one in 11. Compared with other places, households headed by a manager or professional are scarce here: 5.6%, fewer than in four fifths of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put La Sauvetat’s population at 403, in 180 households.
Throughout this page, the Gers 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 La Sauvetat
An older town
Half of La Sauvetat’s residents are under 51.5 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 32% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Empty homes
The census found 35 homes empty (15%): 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 growing town: +15% since 2012, faster than 81% 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 +5%, and from 2017 to 2023 +10%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Gers town ±0%.
Older than 88% of compared French towns: half of La Sauvetat is over 51.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ La Sauvetat 51.5. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 32% of residents are 65 or over, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 22%. By contrast, at 8%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 92% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Below 81% of compared French towns: 29% of households are one person living alone
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 Gers median and the France median
Living alone · share
A household here holds 2.2 people on average. The share of one-person households in the typical compared French town is 35%. On couples with children, 25% here is much the same as in the typical compared French town.
La Sauvetat ranks below 99% of compared French towns on households in social housing: 1%
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
The figure for empty homes is 15% in La Sauvetat and 6.7% in the typical compared French town. On households without a car, La Sauvetat sits lower than 84% of compared French towns: 5.5%. In the typical compared French town, 12% of households rent social housing (HLM). Long tenure is the mark of 28% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 7.4% (under two years).
Median standard of living: €23,740 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €23,740 a year: lower than in 74% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 35% in La Sauvetat, more than in 66% 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
Here just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 14%. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a retired person come to 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 9.7%, a higher share than 69% 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.
7.3% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Immigrants: 6.5% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Below 94% of compared French towns: 20% of residents 15 and over are single
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 couples, 47% are married and 7.3% in a PACS (median compared French town: 43% and 6.1%); 7.3% are widowed. Elsewhere, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
19% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 51% 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
About one in three: that is how common graduates of higher education are in La Sauvetat (30%).
Of 41 French towns its size (403 to 2,582 people), the 10th 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.
La Sauvetat and its 6 nearest towns: 5 of them 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 La Sauvetat
What is the population of La Sauvetat?
403 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% more than in 2012 (351).
How old are La Sauvetat’s residents?
The median age is 51.5, older than 88% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in La Sauvetat?
23, with occasional dwellings: 9.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in La Sauvetat?
INSEE counts 39 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 9.7% of residents, and 29 foreign nationals (7.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in La Sauvetat?
€23,740 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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