Half of Luzech is over 55, older than 94% of compared French towns
The figure for households headed by a retired person is 51% in Luzech and 32% in the typical compared French town. Meanwhile, on households in social housing, Luzech sits lower than 86% of compared French towns: 5.1%. The 2023 Census counted 1,750 residents in 840 households. For Luzech, the census puts couples with children at 18%.
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.
What stands out about the people of Luzech
One home in five is a second home
The census counted 210 second homes and occasional dwellings in Luzech, 19% of its 1,130 homes: higher than in 93% of compared French towns. 89% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Luzech’s residents are under 55 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 12% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Luzech: 19% of homes are second homes, above 93% of compared French towns
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 households without a car tops 78% of compared French towns: 18%. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. For Luzech, the census puts flats at 15%. This Lot town has fewer empty homes than 50% of compared French towns, at 6.7%.
Slower growth than 51% of compared French towns: Luzech changed by +5% 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
Here the change came as +8% to 2017, then −4% to 2023.
Residents aged 65 and over: 31%, a higher share than 88% 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
■ Luzech 55. The median compared French town: 44.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.8%, below 84% of compared French towns. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
More one-person households than 76% of compared French towns: 42%
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
In Luzech, nearly one in ten households are single parents, beside 10% in the typical compared French town. One-person households make up 35% in the typical compared French town. Each household has 1.9 people on average.
€24,180 a year: the median standard of living
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 Luzech’s residents live in households with a standard of living below €24,180 a year per consumption unit, and half above: lower than in 69% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 98% of compared French towns: 2.9%
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
For Luzech, the census puts households headed by a manual worker at 13%. The benchmark for households headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town: 9.4%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
A larger share of foreign nationals than 60% of compared French towns: 5.5%
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 Lot has 9.5%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 55% of compared French towns. To put it in context, 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town. For Luzech, the census puts immigrants at 7.3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Luzech ranks below 74% of compared French towns on married residents: 39%
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
Set against 25% in the typical compared French town, 27% of residents 15 and over are single in Luzech. In the typical compared French town, married residents come to 43%.
Luzech: 27% of adults out of school have no qualification, above 84% 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
24% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification, against 30% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
41 French towns of 1,750 to 2,582 people: this is the 6th 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).
Among its 5 nearest neighbors, 2 are older than Luzech
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 Luzech
What is the population of Luzech?
1,750 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 5% more than in 2012 (1,674).
How old are Luzech’s residents?
The median age is 55, older than 94% of compared French towns. 15% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Luzech?
210, with occasional dwellings: 19% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Luzech?
INSEE counts 130 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 7.3% of residents, and 97 foreign nationals (5.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Luzech?
€24,180 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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