A median age of 55.3: Saint-Puy is older than 94% of compared French towns
Where just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town, Saint-Puy has 2.7%. At 4.6%, the share of flats is lower than in 96% of compared French towns. There were 290 households locally at the 2023 Census, home to 587 residents. In Saint-Puy, 3.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional.
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 Saint-Puy
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 72 second homes and occasional dwellings in Saint-Puy, 18% of its 400 homes: higher than in 93% of compared French towns. 96% 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 Saint-Puy’s residents are under 55.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 33% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 9.4% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Saint-Puy: 18% of homes are second homes, above 93% 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
5.5% of households have no car, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Empty homes are more common here than in 62% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of second homes is 2.1%.
±0% since 2012: slower than 69% 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 +2%, and from 2017 to 2023 −2%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Gers town ±0%.
In Saint-Puy, 7.5% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 95% 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
■ Saint-Puy 55.3. The median compared French town: 44.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 33% in Saint-Puy and 22% in the typical compared French town. Elsewhere, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%.
A smaller share of single-parent households than 91% of compared French towns: 6.9%
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 share of couples with children is 19%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. On average, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. One-person households: 36% of the total.
The middle resident’s standard of living: €23,890 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 €23,890 a year: lower than in 73% of compared French towns.
38% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 77% 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 Saint-Puy, 17% of households are headed by a manual worker, beside 14% in the typical compared French town. The share of households headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town is 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Saint-Puy ranks above 81% of compared French towns on foreign nationals: 9.7%
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.
Against a figure of 6.5% in the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants in Saint-Puy comes in at 10%. That is higher than in 72% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Gers has 7.9%. Foreign nationals make up 4.3% in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Fewer single residents than 91% 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
Set against 43% in the typical compared French town, 46% of residents 15 and over are married in Saint-Puy. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
More adults with no qualification than 63% of compared French towns: 22%
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: 29% of the total. On average, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 587 to 2,582 people: this is the 5th 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Saint-Puy sits below 1 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Saint-Puy
What is the population of Saint-Puy?
587 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (586).
How old are Saint-Puy’s residents?
The median age is 55.3, older than 94% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 33% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Puy?
72, with occasional dwellings: 18% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Puy?
INSEE counts 61 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 10% of residents, and 57 foreign nationals (9.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Puy?
€23,890 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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