Households without a car: 1.4%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
7.9% of homes are flats (typical compared French town: 30%). Lower than in 95% of compared French towns: 2.8% of households rent social housing (HLM). Pessan is home to 648 residents in 290 households, by the 2023 Census. Locally, 16% of households are single parents.
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 Pessan
Fewer residents than in 2012
Pessan had 692 residents at the 2012 census and 648 in 2023, down 6%: slower growth than in 92% of compared French towns. Population ↓
An older town
Half of Pessan’s residents are under 51.4 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 29% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 7.1% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Since 2012, Pessan has changed by −6%, slower than 92% 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
In two steps, −3% to 2017 and −3% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and ±0% in Gers.
Half of Pessan is over 51.4, older than 87% 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
■ Pessan 51.4. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Pessan has 8.3%. Residents aged 65 and over come to 29% here, about three in ten.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Pessan ranks below 92% of compared French towns on one-person households: 26%
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
The average household has 2.2 people. On couples with children, Pessan sits lower than nearly three fifths of compared French towns: 23%. Measured more widely, 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town.
Pessan: 4.3% of homes are second homes, above 73% 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 households moved in less than two years ago; 32% have been in their home 30 years or more. Empty homes are more common here than in 55% of compared French towns. The share of second homes in the typical compared French town is 2.1%.
A median standard of living of €26,260 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 Pessan’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €26,260 a year per consumption unit, and half above: higher than in 53% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person make up 43% in Pessan, more than in 91% 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 Pessan, 9% of households are headed by a manual worker, beside 14% in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 83% of compared French towns. On average, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Fewer immigrants than 75% of compared French towns: 3.8%
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.
By its share of foreign nationals (2.1%), Pessan is below 78% of compared French towns. The share of immigrants in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
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 90% of compared French towns: 20%
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
Married residents: 45% here and 43% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
15% of adults out of school have no qualification, below 73% 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
Graduates of higher education make up 33%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification.
41 French towns of 648 to 2,582 people: this is 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Of the 6 towns nearest Pessan, 3 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 Pessan
What is the population of Pessan?
648 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 6% fewer than in 2012 (692).
How old are Pessan’s residents?
The median age is 51.4, older than 87% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 29% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pessan?
14, with occasional dwellings: 4.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pessan?
INSEE counts 24 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.8% of residents, and 13 foreign nationals (2.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pessan?
€26,260 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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