Photo: Dutronche · CC BY-SA 3.0A lower share of households without a car than 92% of compared French towns, at 4.4%
Households headed by a manager or professional: 21% here and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. Prades-le-Lez is home to 6,184 residents in 2,730 households, by the 2023 Census. About one in six: that is how common residents aged 65 and over are in Prades-le-Lez (18%). Empty homes are rarer here than in 83% of compared French towns.
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 Prades-le-Lez
Growing fast
Prades-le-Lez had 4,548 residents at the 2012 census and 6,184 in 2023, up 36%: faster growth than in 98% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Many graduates
56% of residents 15 and over who have left education hold a diploma above the bac, 24% a master’s or more (bac+5). Qualifications ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
+36% since 2012, a pace 98% of compared French towns didn’t match
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 Hérault town changed +13% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +20% and the next six +13%.
Prades-le-Lez is younger than 70% of compared French towns: a median age of 41.3
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Prades-le-Lez 41.3. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 11% in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
A lower share of one-person households than 76% of compared French towns, at 30%
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
Where 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town, Prades-le-Lez has 28%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 35% in the typical compared French town. Roughly one in ten: just over one in ten households are single parents.
Only 8.1% of households rent social housing (HLM) in Prades-le-Lez
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
The share of second homes trails just over four fifths of compared French towns: 1%. Against that, just over one in ten households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town. Roughly three in ten: 30% of homes are flats.
A typical living standard of €29,270 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 median standard of living in Prades-le-Lez is €29,270 a year per consumption unit: higher than in 80% of compared French towns. 8.0% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Fewer households headed by a manual worker than 89% of compared French towns: 7.4%
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
32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town, against 27% in Prades-le-Lez. In the typical compared French town, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
6.2% of residents in Prades-le-Lez 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.
The census found that 3.5% of residents are foreign nationals in Prades-le-Lez. That is lower than in 53% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Hérault has 6.8%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
A smaller share of single residents than 58% of compared French towns: 24%
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
Married residents account for 42%. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
56% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, a share 96% of compared French towns don’t reach
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
Here 8.2% of adults out of school have no qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 19%. The usual figure: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 6,133 to 6,247 people: this is the 10th youngest
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 Pont-Évêque (37.2), the youngest, and Palavas-les-Flots (59.9), the oldest.
Prades-le-Lez is younger than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prades-le-Lez | 41.3 | 18% | 1% | 6.2% |
| Saint-Clément-de-Rivière 5,218 · 1.4 mi | 50.6 | 34% | 4.4% | 5.8% |
| Montferrier-sur-Lez 4,135 · 2 mi | 49.3 | 30% | 3% | 6.5% |
| Clapiers 6,006 · 2.8 mi | 44.6 | 22% | 1.9% | 7.2% |
| Teyran 4,787 · 2.9 mi | 48.7 | 28% | 1.2% | 3.6% |
| Saint-Gély-du-Fesc 10,472 · 3.1 mi | 48.4 | 26% | 1.1% | 5.9% |
| Jacou 6,924 · 3.3 mi | 44.9 | 22% | 1.2% | 9.4% |
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 Prades-le-Lez
What is the population of Prades-le-Lez?
6,184 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 36% more than in 2012 (4,548).
How old are Prades-le-Lez’s residents?
The median age is 41.3, younger than 70% of compared French towns. 23% are under 18 and 18% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Prades-le-Lez?
28, with occasional dwellings: 1% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Prades-le-Lez?
INSEE counts 380 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.2% of residents, and 220 foreign nationals (3.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Prades-le-Lez?
€29,270 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 8.0% 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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