4.9% of residents are 15 to 24, below 99% of compared French towns
4.1% of households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the typical compared French town. The share of households without a car stands at 4.4%. At 5.3%, the share of second homes is higher than in 78% of compared French towns. Census day 2023: 236 residents and 110 households in Saint-Martial.
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.
A +1% change since 2012: slower than 64% 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 change was +4%; from 2017 to 2023, −2%. Over the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Gironde town +16%.
Older than 69% of compared French towns: half of Saint-Martial is over 46.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Saint-Martial 46.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Across Saint-Martial, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 81 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
A smaller share of single-parent households than 68% of compared French towns: 8.9%
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 Gironde median and the France median
Living alone · share
Here 37% of households are one person living alone, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 35%. In the typical compared French town, single-parent households come to 10%. A household here holds 2.2 people on average.
In Saint-Martial, 2.3% of homes are flats, fewer than in 99% 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
4.4% of homes stand empty (typical compared French town: 6.7%). As a yardstick, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town.
A median standard of living of €24,560 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.
The midpoint of living standards here is €24,560 a year per consumption unit, lower than in 65% of compared French towns.
Saint-Martial sits below 93% of compared French towns for households headed by a retired person (21%)
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-Martial, 18% of households are headed by a manual worker, beside 14% in the typical compared French town. Measured more widely, 32% 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).
4.6% of residents are immigrants, below 67% 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.
Foreign nationals: 4.2% of the total. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Only 21% of residents 15 and over are single in Saint-Martial
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
Across Saint-Martial, 42% of residents 15 and over are married. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
In Saint-Martial, 17% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 60% 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 account for 30%. Set beside that, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 236 to 2,582 people: this is the 17th 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-Martial is older than every town around it
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-Martial
What is the population of Saint-Martial?
236 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% more than in 2012 (233).
How old are Saint-Martial’s residents?
The median age is 46.9, older than 69% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Martial?
6, with occasional dwellings: 5.3% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Martial?
INSEE counts 11 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.6% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (4.2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Martial?
€24,560 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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