32% of homes are second homes, a share 95% of compared French towns don’t reach
7.3% of residents are 15 to 24, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Households without a car: 1.5% of the total. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 134 people lived in Mechmont, in 60 households.
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 Mechmont
One home in three is a second home
The census counted 30 second homes and occasional dwellings in Mechmont, 32% of its 94 homes: higher than in 95% of compared French towns. 100% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Mechmont, 2.1% of homes are flats, fewer than in 99% 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 empty homes trails 81% of compared French towns: 4.5%. 15% of households arrived within the last two years, while 19% have stayed 30 years or more.
Mechmont grew +16% from 2012 to 2023, ahead of 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
The median Lot town changed −1% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought +8% and the next six +7%.
Mechmont sits above 75% of compared French towns for residents aged 65 and over (27%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Mechmont 43.7. The median compared French town: 44.
Half of Mechmont’s residents are under 43.7, younger than in 53% of compared French towns. For comparison, 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
31% of households are couples with children, more than in 79% 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 2.2 people in the average household. To put it in context, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. On one-person households, Mechmont sits lower than 73% of compared French towns: 31%.
A typical living standard of €25,470 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 €25,470 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 55% of compared French towns.
Only 15% of households are headed by a retired person in Mechmont
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
Against a figure of 9.4% in the typical compared French town, the share of households headed by a manager or professional in Mechmont comes in at 15%. The wider picture: 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. Households headed by a manual worker are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Foreign nationals: 2%, a lower share than 79% 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.
Here 5.3% of residents are immigrants, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 6.5%. That is lower than in three fifths of compared French towns; the median compared commune in Lot has 9.5%. Foreign nationals make up 4.3% 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.
A lower share of single residents than 77% of compared French towns, at 22%
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 43% in the typical compared French town, 47% of residents 15 and over are married in Mechmont. The comparison figure for single residents is 25% in the typical compared French town.
Mechmont ranks below 95% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 10%
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
42% of Mechmont’s residents 15 and over who have left education hold a higher-education diploma, against 30% in the median compared French town; 10% have no diploma (19%).
15th lowest median age among 41 French towns of 134 to 2,582
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Every neighbor is older than Mechmont
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 Mechmont
What is the population of Mechmont?
134 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 16% more than in 2012 (116).
How old are Mechmont’s residents?
The median age is 43.7, younger than 53% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Mechmont?
30, with occasional dwellings: 32% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Mechmont?
INSEE counts 7 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 5.3% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (2%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Mechmont?
€25,470 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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