Older than 98% of compared French towns: half of Dournazac is over 60.2
Households in social housing: 0.8% here and 12% in the typical compared French town. About one in 36: that is how common single-parent households are in Dournazac (2.8%). Higher than in 99% of compared French towns: 55% of households are headed by a retired person. The town had 672 residents in 350 households at the 2023 Census.
Throughout this page, the Haute-Vienne 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 Dournazac
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 170 second homes and occasional dwellings in Dournazac, 27% of its 600 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 99% 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 Dournazac’s residents are under 60.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 42% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 12% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Immigrants
INSEE counts 100 immigrants in Dournazac (people born abroad who weren’t French at birth, whatever their nationality now): 15% of residents, against 4.5% for the median compared commune in Haute-Vienne. 14% are foreign nationals. Immigrants and foreign nationals ↓
Empty homes
The census found 93 homes empty (15%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Dournazac, 27% of homes are second homes, more than in 95% 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
Long tenure is the mark of 23% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 9.2% (under two years). Fewer flats than in 99% of compared French towns: 1.8%. In the typical compared French town, second homes come to 2.1%. Here 15% of homes stand empty, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 6.7%.
Dournazac changed by +2% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 61% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Haute-Vienne town +1%. The first five years brought ±0%; the six to 2023, +2%.
42% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% 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
■ Dournazac 60.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, against 5.5% in Dournazac. Elsewhere, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Vienne 52.5%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Couples with children make up 14% in Dournazac, less than in 94% of compared French towns
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-Vienne median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 1.9 people. As a yardstick, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 41%, more than in nearly three quarters of compared French towns.
A typical living standard of €21,170 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.
At €21,170 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 93% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 80% of compared French towns: 5.6%
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 manual worker: 9.7% here and 14% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a manager or professional come to 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Dournazac ranks above 86% of compared French towns on immigrants: 15%
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 figure for foreign nationals is 14% in Dournazac and 4.3% in the typical compared French town. For immigrants, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 6.5%.
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 99% of compared French towns: 17%
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 Dournazac, nearly half of residents 15 and over are married, beside 43% in the typical compared French town. The share of single residents in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Dournazac: 25% of adults out of school have no qualification, above 77% 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
24% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. As a reference point, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 672 to 2,582 people: this is the 4th 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.
Every neighbor is younger than Dournazac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dournazac | 60.2 | 42% | 27% | 15% |
| Nexon 2,548 · 13.5 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 5.8% | 3.2% |
| Nontron 3,057 · 13.8 mi | 54.9 | 35% | 10% | 6.8% |
| Rochechouart 3,603 · 14.5 mi | 56.7 | 37% | 11% | 6.4% |
| Thiviers 2,876 · 14.5 mi | 54.3 | 35% | 9.2% | 7.3% |
| Aixe-sur-Vienne 5,890 · 15.9 mi | 47.3 | 27% | 1.9% | 4.2% |
| Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 6,830 · 16.1 mi | 57 | 36% | 4.8% | 5.5% |
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 Dournazac
What is the population of Dournazac?
672 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 2% more than in 2012 (658).
How old are Dournazac’s residents?
The median age is 60.2, older than 98% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 42% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Dournazac?
170, with occasional dwellings: 27% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Dournazac?
INSEE counts 100 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 15% of residents, and 95 foreign nationals (14%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Dournazac?
€21,170 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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