Residents aged 15 to 24: 7.4%, a lower share than 96% of compared French towns
Here 4.8% of households have no car, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. Empty homes are rarer here than in 95% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 1,202 people lived in Preignan, in 550 households. In Preignan, 28% of households are one person living alone.
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.
A −3% change since 2012: slower than 80% 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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, ±0% in Gers.
A median age of 47.3: Preignan is older than 71% 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
■ Preignan 47.3. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 23%.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
Above 77% of compared French towns: 12% of households are single parents
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
Here nearly a quarter of households are couples with children, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 25%. Typically, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. There are 2.2 people in the average household.
Flats: 11%, a lower share than 84% 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
Households in social housing: 8.2% here and 12% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. In Preignan, 1.6% of homes are second homes.
€26,870 a year: the median 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.
The median standard of living in Preignan is €26,870 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 60% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 10%, a lower share than 76% 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
7% of households are headed by a manager or professional (typical compared French town: 9.4%). For Preignan, the census puts households headed by a retired person at 33%. Households headed by a manual worker make up 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
2.8% of residents are foreign nationals, fewer than in 68% 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.
Immigrants make up 5.1%, against 6.5% in the typical compared French town. Foreign nationals make up 4.3% in the typical compared French town. That is lower than in 62% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Gers has 7.9%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
19% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 94% 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
The figure for married residents is 50% in Preignan and 43% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Only 13% of adults out of school have no qualification in Preignan
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
32% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. Across the comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 15th oldest of 41 French towns of 1,202 to 2,582 people
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.
Preignan 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 Preignan
What is the population of Preignan?
1,202 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,234).
How old are Preignan’s residents?
The median age is 47.3, older than 71% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 23% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Preignan?
9, with occasional dwellings: 1.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Preignan?
INSEE counts 62 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.1% of residents, and 33 foreign nationals (2.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Preignan?
€26,870 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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