Photo: Milca56 · CC BY-SA 4.0A median age of 62.3: Prayssac is older than 99% of compared French towns
In the typical compared French town, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person; in Prayssac, 61%. Few places have so few couples with children: 13% here, fewer than in 95% of compared French towns. At the 2023 Census, 2,519 people lived locally, in 1,340 households. Put another way, about one in 26: 3.9% of households rent social housing (HLM).
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 Prayssac
One home in eight is a second home
The census counted 200 second homes and occasional dwellings in Prayssac, 12% of its 1,690 homes: higher than in 89% of compared French towns. 91% 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 Prayssac’s residents are under 62.3 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 45% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 16% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Second homes make up 12% in Prayssac, more than in 89% 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
Without a car: one household in six, against 11% in the median compared French town. About one in six: that is how common households without a car are in Prayssac (17%). Compared with other places, flats are scarce here: 13%, fewer than in just over four fifths of compared French towns. Second homes: 2.1% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Prayssac changed by ±0% from 2012 to 2023, behind 68% 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 first five years brought −5%; the six to 2023, +5%.
45% of residents are 65 or over, more 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
■ Prayssac 62.3. The median compared French town: 44.
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 6.1%, Prayssac is behind 99% of compared French towns on that count. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 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.
Fewer single-parent households than 94% of compared French towns: 6.4%
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
Average household size: 1.8 people. Prayssac has more one-person households than 80% of compared French towns, at 43%. As a reference point, one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €24,580 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 €24,580 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 65% of compared French towns. Poverty touches 16.0% of residents.
A smaller share of households headed by a manager or professional than 89% of compared French towns: 4.5%
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
The figure for households headed by a manual worker is 7.5% in Prayssac and 14% in the typical compared French town. As a reference point, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Immigrants: 9.4%, a higher share than 68% 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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Prayssac has 6.9%. The usual figure: 6.5% of residents are immigrants 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.
19% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 97% 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
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Prayssac comes in at 47%. Single residents: 25% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 69% of compared French towns: 25%
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
Adults with no qualification: 21%, above 62% of compared French towns. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
The oldest of 41 French towns of 2,507 to 2,584 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
No nearby town is as old as Prayssac
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 Prayssac
What is the population of Prayssac?
2,519 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (2,511).
How old are Prayssac’s residents?
The median age is 62.3, older than 99% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 45% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Prayssac?
200, with occasional dwellings: 12% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Prayssac?
INSEE counts 240 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 9.4% of residents, and 170 foreign nationals (6.9%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Prayssac?
€24,580 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 16.0% 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 8, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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