Photo: Babsy · CC BY 3.0A median age of 51.3: Panazol is older than 87% of compared French towns
The share of households headed by a retired person is 42%, against 32% in the typical compared French town. Panazol had 11,342 residents in 5,150 households at the 2023 Census. Put another way, about one in 24: 4.1% of homes stand empty. Fewer households without a car than in 69% of compared French towns: 7.5%.
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 Panazol
An older town
Half of Panazol’s residents are under 51.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 11% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Panazol’s population changed by +9% since 2012, more than in 66% 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
Over those years, the median Haute-Vienne town changed +1% and the median compared French town +5%.
Panazol: 31% of residents are 65 or over, above 87% 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
■ Panazol 51.3. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Panazol has 8.8%. As a reference point, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 87 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.
A smaller share of couples with children than 64% of compared French towns: 22%
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 2.1 people. For couples with children, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%. Nothing unusual on single-parent households: 9.7%, close to the figure in the typical compared French town.
Fewer flats than 74% of compared French towns: 17%
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
7.2% of households arrived within the last two years, while 25% have stayed 30 years or more. Panazol has fewer second homes than 82% of compared French towns, at 0.9%. Here 14% of households rent social housing (HLM), where the figure in the typical compared French town is 12%.
A median standard of living of €27,270 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 €27,270 a year per consumption unit, higher than in 64% of compared French towns. Under the poverty line sit 11.0% of residents.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 82% of compared French towns: 9.1%
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
12% of households are headed by a manager or professional (typical compared French town: 9.4%). Across the comparison, 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).
Panazol: 7.1% of residents are immigrants
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.
3.6% of residents are foreign nationals, or about one in 28. That is higher than in 54% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Haute-Vienne has 4.5%.
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 Panazol
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
45% of residents 15 and over are married and 6.4% in a PACS, against 43% and 6.1% in the median compared French town; 11% are widowed. For single residents, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 25%.
Above 59% of compared French towns: 33% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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
The share of adults with no qualification trails 60% of compared French towns: 17%. As a reference point, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 11,085 to 11,611 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.
Épinay-sous-Sénart is the youngest (33.8); Arcachon the oldest (67.4).
No nearby town is as old as Panazol
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panazol | 51.3 | 31% | 0.9% | 7.1% |
| Feytiat 6,176 · 2.2 mi | 49.4 | 27% | 1.4% | 4.2% |
| Limoges 129,937 · 2.4 mi | 39.5 | 23% | 3.4% | 13% |
| Le Palais-sur-Vienne 5,775 · 2.7 mi | 49.3 | 29% | 1.1% | 7.9% |
| Saint-Just-le-Martel 2,606 · 4.2 mi | 46.3 | 20% | 3.8% | 2.7% |
| Condat-sur-Vienne 5,281 · 4.4 mi | 46.2 | 24% | 1.4% | 3.2% |
| Couzeix 10,195 · 4.6 mi | 45.9 | 25% | 1.2% | 4.8% |
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 Panazol
What is the population of Panazol?
11,342 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 9% more than in 2012 (10,413).
How old are Panazol’s residents?
The median age is 51.3, older than 87% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Panazol?
51, with occasional dwellings: 0.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Panazol?
INSEE counts 810 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.1% of residents, and 400 foreign nationals (3.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Panazol?
€27,270 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 11.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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