Palhers is older than 92% of compared French towns: a median age of 53.8
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. In 2023, the Census found 200 residents in Palhers, living in 67 households. Census figures put flats at 2.2% locally. With households headed by a retired person at 46%, Palhers is ahead of 94% of compared French towns on that count.
Throughout this page, the Lozère 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 Palhers
One home in six is a second home
The census counted 14 second homes and occasional dwellings in Palhers, 16% of its 89 homes: higher than in 91% 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 ↓
An older town
Half of Palhers’ residents are under 53.8 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 26% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 1.5% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Palhers ranks below 99% of compared French towns on households without a car: 3%
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
Empty homes: 9% here and 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Across the comparison, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. In Palhers, 16% of homes are second homes.
From 2012 to 2023, 76% of compared French towns grew faster than Palhers: −1%
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
Medians for comparison: +5% across compared French towns, −4% in Lozère. Here the change came as −10% to 2017, then +10% to 2023.
Palhers sits below 99% of compared French towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (5.5%)
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Palhers 53.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 22% in the typical compared French town, 26% of residents are 65 or over here. By way of comparison, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 80 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Lozère 51.3%, France 51.8%.
One-person households make up 31% in Palhers, less than in 73% 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 Lozère median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.1 people. In the typical compared French town, just over a third of households are one person living alone. Single-parent households are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Couples with children make up 23%, against 25% in the typical compared French town.
Median living standard: €23,470 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.
The median standard of living in Palhers is €23,470 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 77% of compared French towns.
In Palhers, 15% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 77% of compared French towns
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
Households headed by a manual worker are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Typically, 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).
In Palhers, 1.5% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 97% 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.
4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, against 1.5% in Palhers. The median compared commune in Lozère has 7.7%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 97% of compared French towns. Across the comparison, 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.
Palhers sits above 93% of compared French towns for single residents (36%)
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
With married residents at 41%, Palhers is behind 66% of compared French towns on that count. Set beside that, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Adults with no qualification: 33%, a higher share than 96% 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
The share of graduates of higher education is 26%, against 30% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 7th oldest of 41 French towns this size
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.
Palhers is older than every town around it
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 Palhers
What is the population of Palhers?
200 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 1% fewer than in 2012 (203).
How old are Palhers’ residents?
The median age is 53.8, older than 92% of compared French towns. 12% are under 18 and 26% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Palhers?
14, with occasional dwellings: 16% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Palhers?
INSEE counts 3 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.5% of residents, and 3 foreign nationals (1.5%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Palhers?
€23,470 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 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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