A lower share of households without a car than 98% of compared French towns, at 3.3%
Where 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Passa has 14%. Its 480 households held 1,118 residents at the 2023 Census. Put another way, about one in 11: nearly one in ten homes are second homes. Households headed by a retired person are rarer here than in 91% of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Pyrénées-Orientales 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 Passa
Growing fast
Passa had 693 residents at the 2012 census and 1,118 in 2023, up 61%: faster growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A town of families
34% of households are couples with children and 8% single parents with children; 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A growing town: +61% since 2012, faster than 99% 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +18%, and from 2017 to 2023 +36%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Pyrénées-Orientales town +10%.
Passa is younger than 82% of compared French towns: a median age of 39.5
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Passa 39.5. The median compared French town: 44.
In the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%; Passa has 8.3%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%.
Couples with children: 34%, a higher share than 90% 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 Pyrénées-Orientales median and the France median
Living alone · share
Set against 35% in the typical compared French town, 29% of households are one person living alone in Passa. 8% of households are single parents. Across the comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town.
Passa sits below 90% of compared French towns for flats (8.1%)
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
Long tenure is the mark of 8.9% of households (30 years or more), short tenure of 8.9% (under two years). On households in social housing, Passa sits lower than 78% of compared French towns: 6.7%. Empty homes: 7.2%, near enough the figure in the typical compared French town.
Median standard of living: €24,180 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 Passa’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.
13% of households are headed by a manual worker, fewer than in 57% 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
Passa has more households headed by a manager or professional than 54% of compared French towns, at 10%. Households headed by a manual worker make up 14% in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Passa, 4.3% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 71% 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.
2.3% of residents are foreign nationals (typical compared French town: 4.3%). In the typical compared French town, 6.5% of residents are immigrants.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
In Passa, 37% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 85% 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
Here, 25% of residents 15 and over are single. In the median compared French town 43% are married and 6.1% in a PACS; here it is 37% and 14%, and 4.6% are widowed.
A lower share of adults with no qualification than 79% of compared French towns, at 14%
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
In Passa, 31% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. The wider picture: 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 2nd youngest 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.
Villejust is the youngest (37.2); Prayssac the oldest (62.3).
Passa is younger 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 Passa
What is the population of Passa?
1,118 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 61% more than in 2012 (693).
How old are Passa’s residents?
The median age is 39.5, younger than 82% of compared French towns. 26% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Passa?
50, with occasional dwellings: 8.8% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Passa?
INSEE counts 48 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.3% of residents, and 26 foreign nationals (2.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Passa?
€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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