Couples with children: 39%, a higher share than 98% of compared French towns
The share of households without a car trails 97% of compared French towns: 3.5%. For Saint-Polgues, the census puts households headed by a manual worker at 30%. Lower than in 93% of compared French towns: 6.8% of homes are flats. The 2023 Census put the town’s population at 277, in 110 households.
Throughout this page, the Loire 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 Saint-Polgues
A town of families
39% of households are couples with children and 4.3% single parents with children; 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Empty homes
The census found 25 homes empty (17%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Growth of +14% since 2012 puts Saint-Polgues ahead of 80% 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 the same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Loire town +3%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was +7%; from 2017 to 2023, +7%.
In Saint-Polgues, 5.1% of residents are 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% 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
■ Saint-Polgues 40.9. The median compared French town: 44.
Where 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Saint-Polgues has 17%. For comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. With a median age of 40.9, Saint-Polgues is younger than nearly three quarters of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households: 4.3%, a lower share than 99% 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 Loire median and the France median
Living alone · share
Just over a quarter of households are one person living alone, against 35% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town. Each household has 2.4 people on average.
Above 98% of compared French towns: 17% of homes stand empty
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
Second homes make up 5.4%, against 2.1% in the typical compared French town. Across Saint-Polgues, 2.6% of households rent social housing (HLM). In the typical compared French town, empty homes come to 6.7%.
€23,560 a year is the median standard of living here
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.
Living standards centre on €23,560 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 77% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 17%, a lower share than 98% 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
Households headed by a manager or professional: 4.3% here and 9.4% in the typical compared French town. In the typical compared French town, households headed by a retired person come to 32%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 0.4% of residents are foreign nationals in Saint-Polgues
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 median compared commune in Loire has 5.8%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 90% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, the share of foreign nationals is 4.3%. Census figures put immigrants at 2.2% in Saint-Polgues.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Saint-Polgues sits below 83% of compared French towns for single residents (21%)
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
Here 47% of residents 15 and over are married, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 43%. Single residents make up 25% in the typical compared French town.
18% of adults out of school have no qualification, fewer than in 58% 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
The census found that 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Saint-Polgues. In the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%.
The 4th youngest of 41 French towns of 277 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.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Every neighbor is older than Saint-Polgues
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 Saint-Polgues
What is the population of Saint-Polgues?
277 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 14% more than in 2012 (243).
How old are Saint-Polgues’ residents?
The median age is 40.9, younger than 74% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 17% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Saint-Polgues?
8, with occasional dwellings: 5.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Saint-Polgues?
INSEE counts 6 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 2.2% of residents, and 1 foreign nationals (0.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Saint-Polgues?
€23,560 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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