Only 2.3% of homes are flats in Sendets
Here 4.5% of households have no car, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 11%. 354 residents in 160 households: that is Sendets at the 2023 Census. Locally, 29% of households are one person living alone. Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
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.
Slower than most: ±0% since 2012, behind 70% 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
The median Gironde town changed +16% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −6% and the next six +6%.
Above 83% of compared French towns: 13% of residents are 15 to 24
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Sendets 45.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of Sendets’s residents are over 45.8, older than in 62% of compared French towns. Typically, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. Here, nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of couples with children than 69% of compared French towns: 29%
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
Households here average 2.2 people each. In the typical compared French town, couples with children come to 25%. Lower than in 56% of compared French towns: 9.7% of households are single parents.
Second homes make up 4.7% in Sendets, more than in 75% 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
Empty homes: 5.2% here and 6.7% in the typical compared French town. 10% of households arrived within the last two years, while 17% have stayed 30 years or more. In the typical compared French town, the share of second homes is 2.1%.
A median of €23,810 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 €23,810 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 74% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 72% of compared French towns: 6.5%
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 Sendets, 29% of households are headed by a retired person, beside 32% in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, households headed by a manual worker are scarce here: 13%, fewer than in 57% of compared French towns. For households headed by a manager or professional, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Sendets sits below 94% of compared French towns for immigrants (1.7%)
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.
1.1% of residents are foreign nationals; in the typical compared French town the figure is 4.3%. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Sendets sits below 76% of compared French towns for married residents (39%)
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 Sendets, 26% of residents 15 and over are single. In the median compared French town 43% are married and 6.1% in a PACS; here it is 39% and 9.3%, and 6.3% are widowed.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 85% of compared French towns: 20%
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
Sendets has more adults with no qualification than 57% of compared French towns, at 20%. For comparison, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 354 to 2,582 people: this is the 19th 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.
Older than Sendets: 4 of the 6 towns nearby
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sendets | 45.8 | 19% | 4.7% | 1.7% |
| Bazas 4,854 · 6.4 mi | 52 | 31% | 3.8% | 4.7% |
| La Réole 4,487 · 11.3 mi | 44.7 | 22% | 1.9% | 12% |
| Langon 7,674 · 11.6 mi | 46.4 | 28% | 1.8% | 9.6% |
| Casteljaloux 4,755 · 11.7 mi | 57 | 39% | 8.5% | 5.3% |
| Sainte-Bazeille 3,171 · 12 mi | 50.4 | 30% | 1.4% | 6.4% |
| Toulenne 2,881 · 12.6 mi | 43.9 | 24% | 2.1% | 6.1% |
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 Sendets
What is the population of Sendets?
354 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (354).
How old are Sendets’ residents?
The median age is 45.8, older than 62% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Sendets?
8, with occasional dwellings: 4.7% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Sendets?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Sendets?
€23,810 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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