Flats make up 0.2% in Le Montat, less than in 99% of compared French towns
The figure for one-person households is 24% in Le Montat and 35% in the typical compared French town. At the 2023 Census Le Montat was home to 1,107 people in 460 households. Across Le Montat, 3.4% of households rent social housing (HLM). The median age in the town is 49, higher than in nearly four fifths of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Lot 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.
Faster growth than 74% of compared French towns: Le Montat changed by +11% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +4%, and from 2017 to 2023 +7%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Lot town −1%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.6%, a lower share than 71% 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
■ Le Montat 49. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 65 and over at 24%, Le Montat is ahead of 61% of compared French towns on that count.
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households: 6.2%, a lower share than 95% 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 Lot median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 2.3 people in the average household. More couples with children than in 82% of compared French towns: 32%. Measured more widely, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Fewer households without a car than 99% of compared French towns: 2.1%
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
24% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 7.8% moved in within the last two years. Le Montat has more second homes than 80% of compared French towns, at 5.9%. The benchmark for households without a car in the typical compared French town: 11%. Against a figure of 6.7% in the typical compared French town, the share of empty homes in Le Montat comes in at 5.5%.
€28,340 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.
Half of residents live in households above €28,340 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is higher than in 74% of compared French towns.
Below 84% of compared French towns: 8.7% of households are headed by a manual worker
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
Set against 32% in the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are headed by a retired person in Le Montat. For comparison, 14% of households are headed by a manual worker in the typical compared French town. In Le Montat, 12% 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).
Foreign nationals make up 1.9% in Le Montat, less than in 80% 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 69% of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Lot has 9.5%. Against that, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. About one in 22: that is how common immigrants are in Le Montat (4.5%).
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
52% of residents 15 and over are married, more than in 96% 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
In the typical compared French town, 25% of residents 15 and over are single; in Le Montat, 19%. The benchmark for married residents in the typical compared French town: 43%.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 97% of compared French towns: 8.9%
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
34% of Le Montat’s residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 8.9% have no diploma (19%).
The 15th oldest of 41 French towns of 1,107 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
Every neighbor is older than Le Montat
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 Le Montat
What is the population of Le Montat?
1,107 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% more than in 2012 (993).
How old are Le Montat’s residents?
The median age is 49, older than 79% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 24% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Le Montat?
31, with occasional dwellings: 5.9% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Le Montat?
INSEE counts 50 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.5% of residents, and 21 foreign nationals (1.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Le Montat?
€28,340 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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