Nizas is older than 91% of compared French towns: a median age of 52.9
Flats make up 7.6%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. The share of empty homes stands at 3.7%. Few places have so few couples with children: 17% here, fewer than in 84% of compared French towns. The 2023 Census put Nizas’s population at 662, in 340 households.
Throughout this page, the Hérault 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 Nizas
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 87 second homes and occasional dwellings in Nizas, 20% of its 440 homes: higher than in 93% 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 Nizas’ residents are under 52.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 30% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 8.3% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A town of second homes: 20% of its homes
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
Households in social housing make up 2.1%, against 12% in the typical compared French town. On households without a car, Nizas sits lower than 59% of compared French towns: 9.1%. Long tenure is the mark of 16% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 11% (under two years).
Faster growth than 61% of compared French towns: Nizas changed by +7% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and +13% for the median Hérault town, the change came in two steps: +9% from 2012 to 2017, then −1% to 2023.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 7.6%, a lower share than 95% 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
■ Nizas 52.9. The median compared French town: 44.
30% of Nizas’ residents are 65 or older, against 24% in the median Hérault town and 22% in the median compared French town; 17% are under 18.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 7.2% in Nizas, less than in 88% 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 Hérault median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2 people. More one-person households than in 62% of compared French towns: 38%. Single-parent households: 10% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Median living standard: €23,800 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 €23,800 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 74% of compared French towns.
In Nizas, 36% of households are headed by a retired person, more than in 71% 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
In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker; in Nizas, 16%. For households headed by a retired person, the comparison in the typical compared French town is 32%. 8.7% of households are headed by a manager or professional.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants make up 7.4% of Nizas’ residents
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.
Immigrants make up a share higher than in 56% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Hérault has 6.8%. Put another way, about one in 14: 7.4% of residents are immigrants. 5% of residents are foreign nationals, about the same as 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.
23% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 73% of compared French towns
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
Fewer married residents than in 58% of compared French towns: 42%. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 81% of compared French towns: 14%
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
32% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification; in the typical compared French town the figure is 30%. Typically, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
The 8th oldest of 41 French towns of 662 to 2,582 people
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is younger than Nizas
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 Nizas
What is the population of Nizas?
662 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 7% more than in 2012 (616).
How old are Nizas’ residents?
The median age is 52.9, older than 91% of compared French towns. 17% are under 18 and 30% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Nizas?
87, with occasional dwellings: 20% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Nizas?
INSEE counts 49 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.4% of residents, and 33 foreign nationals (5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Nizas?
€23,800 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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