A lower share of households without a car than 99% of compared French towns, at 2.8%
Where 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town, Pauilhac has 2.5%. At the 2023 Census, 596 people lived in the town, in 250 households. Census figures put single-parent households at 14% here. Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than in just over three quarters of compared French towns: 6%.
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 Pauilhac
Fewer residents than in 2012
Pauilhac had 641 residents at the 2012 census and 596 in 2023, down 7%: slower growth than in 93% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Pauilhac changed by −7% from 2012 to 2023, behind 93% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and ±0% for the median Gers town, the change came in two steps: −4% from 2012 to 2017, then −4% to 2023.
Half of Pauilhac is over 48, older than 74% 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
■ Pauilhac 48. The median compared French town: 44.
Here 13% of residents are 15 to 24, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. On top of that, residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 64% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
24% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 96% 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 Gers median and the France median
Living alone · share
Couples with children: 28%, above nearly two thirds of compared French towns. The share of one-person households in the typical compared French town is 35%.
1.8% of homes stand empty, fewer than in 98% of compared French towns
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
Nearly one in ten homes are second homes (Gers median 4.5%, France median 2.1%) and 1.8% are empty (6.7%). Newcomers of less than two years account for one in ten households, residents of 30 years or more for 27%. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Standard of living at the median: €25,770 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 Pauilhac’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €25,770 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 52% of compared French towns.
Pauilhac sits below 64% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (30%)
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
On the census count, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker. 6% of Pauilhac’s households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 30% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 4.4%, a lower share than 70% 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.
The census found that 3.4% of residents are foreign nationals in Pauilhac. The benchmark for immigrants in the typical compared French town: 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A larger share of married residents than 91% of compared French towns: 50%
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
A quarter of residents 15 and over are single. The comparison figure for married residents is 43% in the typical compared French town.
A lower share of graduates of higher education than 56% of compared French towns, at 28%
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: 18% of the total. Set beside that, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 15th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Among its 6 nearest neighbors, 4 are older than Pauilhac
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 Pauilhac
What is the population of Pauilhac?
596 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% fewer than in 2012 (641).
How old are Pauilhac’s residents?
The median age is 48, older than 74% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pauilhac?
23, with occasional dwellings: 8.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pauilhac?
INSEE counts 26 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.4% of residents, and 20 foreign nationals (3.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pauilhac?
€25,770 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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