Households headed by a manager or professional: 1.5%, a lower share than 99% of compared French towns
Couples with children: 32% here and 25% in the typical compared French town. Patay counted 2,384 residents and 1,000 households at the 2023 Census. 10% of homes stand empty, or about one in ten. On households in social housing, Patay sits higher than 64% of compared French towns: 16%.
Throughout this page, the Loiret 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 Patay
A young town
Half of Patay’s residents are under 38.2 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 23% are under 15 and 21% are 65 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Patay grew +16% from 2012 to 2023, faster than 83% 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
For comparison, the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Loiret town +6%.
Younger than 87% of compared French towns: half of Patay is under 38.2
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Patay 38.2. The median compared French town: 44.
Just over one in ten residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town, against 9.4% in Patay. Put another way, about one in five: just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loiret 51.7%, France 51.8%.
8.6% of households are single parents, fewer than in 72% 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 Loiret median and the France median
Living alone · share
The average household has 2.3 people. One-person households are rarer here than in 59% of compared French towns. The share of single-parent households in the typical compared French town is 10%.
Below 65% of compared French towns: 8.2% of households have no car
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 are about as common here as in the typical compared French town, at 1.5%. Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 23%, fewer than in 62% of compared French towns. Set beside that, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Long tenure is the mark of 18% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 15% (under two years).
Half of residents have a standard of living above €24,220 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.
Half of residents live in households above €24,220 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 69% of compared French towns. Poverty touches 11.0% of residents.
More households headed by a manual worker than 92% of compared French towns: 23%
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, 32% of households are headed by a retired person; in Patay, 31%. By way of 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).
5.4% of residents are foreign nationals, more than in 59% 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.
Immigrants make up a share lower than in 55% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Loiret has 9.8%. Foreign nationals: 4.3% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. On the census count, 5.9% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Only 23% of residents 15 and over are single in Patay
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
43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town, against 45% in Patay. The benchmark for single residents in the typical compared French town: 25%.
Only 21% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Patay
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
By its share of adults with no qualification (23%), Patay is above 70% of compared French towns. The usual figure: 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 2,384 to 2,582 people, the 2nd 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 Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
Every neighbor is older than Patay
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 Patay
What is the population of Patay?
2,384 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 16% more than in 2012 (2,060).
How old are Patay’s residents?
The median age is 38.2, younger than 87% of compared French towns. 27% are under 18 and 21% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Patay?
17, with occasional dwellings: 1.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Patay?
INSEE counts 140 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.9% of residents, and 130 foreign nationals (5.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Patay?
€24,220 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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