Households without a car make up 1.9% in Misson, less than in 99% of compared French towns
Flats make up 4.9%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Across Misson, 6.2% of homes are second homes. Few places have so few households headed by a retired person: 29% here, fewer than in 72% of compared French towns. This Landes town had 828 residents in 350 households at the 2023 census.
Throughout this page, the Landes 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 Misson
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 5.8% single parents with children; 15% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +14% change since 2012: Misson grew faster than 79% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and +9% for the median Landes town, the change came in two steps: +7% from 2012 to 2017, then +6% to 2023.
A median age of 46.6: Misson is older than 67% 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
■ Misson 46.6. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, Misson has 9.8%. Residents aged 65 and over: just over a fifth of the total.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
In Misson, 25% of households are one person living alone, fewer 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 Landes median and the France median
Living alone · share
Single-parent households: 5.8%, below 97% of compared French towns. Elsewhere, just over a third of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. Across Misson, 33% of households are couples with children.
Only 3.4% of homes stand empty in Misson
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 are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Set beside that, 6.7% of homes stand empty in the typical compared French town. Of all households, 5.9% moved in during the last two years and 23% have stayed three decades or more.
Standard of living at the median: €26,460 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 €26,460 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is higher than in 55% of compared French towns.
A larger share of households headed by a manual worker than 89% of compared French towns: 22%
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
On the census count, 8.5% of households are headed by a manager or professional. The usual figure: 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).
Immigrants make up 4.2% in Misson, less than in 72% 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.
2.6% of residents are foreign nationals, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. As a yardstick, 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
Misson sits above 70% of compared French towns for married residents (46%)
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
For Misson, the census puts single residents at 25%. In the median compared French town 43% are married and 6.1% in a PACS; here it is 46% and 11%, and 6% are widowed.
Misson sits below 69% of compared French towns for adults with no qualification (16%)
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 just over a quarter of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 30%. Across the comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 828 to 2,582 people: this is the 18th 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Misson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Misson | 46.6 | 21% | 6.2% | 4.2% |
| Pouillon 3,134 · 2.4 mi | 52.3 | 29% | 5.2% | 3% |
| Peyrehorade 3,700 · 7.7 mi | 46.7 | 28% | 4.6% | 5.9% |
| Salies-de-Béarn 4,742 · 8.1 mi | 57.6 | 38% | 14% | 8.7% |
| Narrosse 3,387 · 8.2 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 3% | 7.6% |
| Dax 22,109 · 9.3 mi | 49.3 | 29% | 17% | 9.7% |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax 14,481 · 11.2 mi | 51.3 | 32% | 10% | 6.6% |
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 Misson
What is the population of Misson?
828 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 14% more than in 2012 (727).
How old are Misson’s residents?
The median age is 46.6, older than 67% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Misson?
24, with occasional dwellings: 6.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Misson?
INSEE counts 35 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.2% of residents, and 22 foreign nationals (2.6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Misson?
€26,460 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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