Only 2.6% of households are headed by a manager or professional in Pondaurat
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Census figures put households without a car at 5.7% in Pondaurat. At the 2023 Census Pondaurat was home to 455 people in 190 households. Where 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town, Pondaurat has 13%.
Throughout this page, the Gironde 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 Pondaurat
Fewer residents than in 2012
Pondaurat had 479 residents at the 2012 census and 455 in 2023, down 5%: slower growth than in 88% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Pondaurat’s population moved −5% on 2012, less than in 88% 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
Between 2012 and 2017 the population moved −2%, then −3% to 2023. Over those years, the median Gironde town changed +16% and the median compared French town +5%.
Pondaurat is older than 81% of compared French towns: a median age of 49.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Pondaurat 49.5. The median compared French town: 44.
25% of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%. Locally, 8.3% of residents are 15 to 24.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 96% of compared French towns, at 24%
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 Gironde median and the France median
Living alone · share
Couples with children: 29% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. The comparison figure for one-person households is 35% in the typical compared French town. There are 2.4 people in the average household.
Flats make up 4.6% in Pondaurat, less than in 96% 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
In the typical compared French town, the share of second homes is 2.1%; Pondaurat has 4.5%. Across the comparison, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town. 7.3% of homes stand empty, or about one in 14.
A median of €26,140 a year per consumption unit
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.
Living standards centre on €26,140 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 52% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a manual worker: 24%, a higher share than 94% 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
Households headed by a retired person: 26%, below nearly four fifths of compared French towns. Elsewhere, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A smaller share of immigrants than 79% of compared French towns: 3.3%
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 median compared commune in Gironde has 5.1%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 79% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for immigrants is 6.5% in the typical compared French town. In Pondaurat, 2.6% of residents are foreign nationals.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
20% of residents 15 and over are single, below 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
With married residents at 48%, Pondaurat is ahead of 84% of compared French towns on that count. The usual figure: 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
22% of adults out of school have no qualification, more than in 63% 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
Put another way, about one in three: 31% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
41 French towns of 455 to 2,582 people: this is the 14th 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.
Pondaurat sits below 2 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 Pondaurat
What is the population of Pondaurat?
455 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% fewer than in 2012 (479).
How old are Pondaurat’s residents?
The median age is 49.5, older than 81% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 25% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pondaurat?
10, with occasional dwellings: 4.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pondaurat?
INSEE counts 15 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.3% of residents, and 12 foreign nationals (2.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pondaurat?
€26,140 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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