62% of homes are second homes, a share 99% of compared French towns don’t reach
Compared with 10% in the typical compared French town, 26% of households are single parents here. By contrast, residents aged 15 to 24 are rarer here than in 97% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census counted 117 residents in 59 households. The census found that 1.7% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Lento.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Corse 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 Lento
One home in two is a second home
The census counted 100 second homes and occasional dwellings in Lento, 62% of its 170 homes: higher than in 99% of compared French towns. 98% 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 Lento’s residents are under 54.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 32% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 12% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
3.6% of homes stand empty, below 92% 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
Just over one in ten households arrived within the last two years, while 45% have stayed 30 years or more. Typically, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 7.8%, fewer than in 91% of compared French towns. Set against 11% in the typical compared French town, 16% of households have no car in Lento.
Slower growth than 70% of compared French towns: Lento changed by ±0% since 2012
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
In two steps, −12% to 2017 and +14% after, the town’s change compares with +5% for the median compared French town and +12% in Haute-Corse.
A median age of 54.3: Lento is older than 93% 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
■ Lento 54.3. The median compared French town: 44.
32% of residents are 65 or over; in the typical compared French town the figure is 22%.
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 121 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Corse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
Lento ranks below 94% of compared French towns on couples with children: 14%
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 Haute-Corse median and the France median
Living alone · share
Households here average 2 people each. Couples with children: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. Lower than in 63% of compared French towns: 33% of households are one person living alone.
Households headed by a manual worker: 6.9%, a lower share than 91% 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
9.4% of households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town, against 6.9% in Lento. Measured more widely, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. Across Lento, 40% of households are headed by a retired person.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 0.9%, a lower share than 99% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% in the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals in Lento comes in at 0.9%. In the typical compared French town, the share of immigrants is 6.5%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Lento sits above 97% of compared French towns for single 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
In couples, 33% are married and 4% in a PACS (median compared French town: 43% and 6.1%); 8% are widowed. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Lento ranks above 61% of compared French towns on graduates of higher education: 33%
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
Adults with no qualification: nearly a fifth of the total. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (117 to 2,582 people), the 7th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Lento 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 Lento
What is the population of Lento?
117 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (117).
How old are Lento’s residents?
The median age is 54.3, older than 93% of compared French towns. 14% are under 18 and 32% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Lento?
100, with occasional dwellings: 62% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Lento?
INSEE counts 1 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 0.9% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (0.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
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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