14% of households are single parents, more than in 90% of compared French towns
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 8.4%, against 11% in the typical compared French town. Empty homes account for 9.9%. On households headed by a manager or professional, Peyrestortes sits lower than 74% of compared French towns: 6.3%. The town had 1,927 residents in 830 households at the 2023 census.
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 Peyrestortes
Growing fast
Peyrestortes had 1,365 residents at the 2012 census and 1,927 in 2023, up 41%: faster growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Growth of +41% since 2012 puts Peyrestortes ahead of 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
The change was +5% from 2012 to 2017 and +35% from 2017 to 2023.
A median age of 40.1: Peyrestortes is younger than 79% 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
■ Peyrestortes 40.1. The median compared French town: 44.
For Peyrestortes, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 22%.
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%.
A larger share of couples with children than 64% of compared French towns: 28%
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
The typical household size is 2.2 people. Across the comparison, 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Census figures put one-person households at 33% in Peyrestortes.
6.8% of households have no car, fewer than in 75% 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
12% of households rent social housing (HLM) in the typical compared French town, against 17% in Peyrestortes. The share of households without a car in the typical compared French town is 11%. The census found that nearly a quarter of homes are flats locally.
The median resident lives on €22,880 a year per consumption unit
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.
At €22,880 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 82% of compared French towns.
Only 30% of households are headed by a retired person in Peyrestortes
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 Peyrestortes, the census puts households headed by a manual worker at 14%. 6.3% of Peyrestortes’ households are headed by a manager or professional, against 9.4% in the median compared French town; 30% by a retired person (32%).
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Below 60% of compared French towns: 3.3% of residents are foreign nationals
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 Pyrénées-Orientales has 7.9%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in just over half of compared French towns. Foreign nationals: 4.3% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. About one in 15: that is how common immigrants are in Peyrestortes (6.7%).
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Peyrestortes sits below 69% of compared French towns for married residents (40%)
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
Single residents make up about one in four here (25%). For comparison, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Fewer graduates of higher education than 78% of compared French towns: 22%
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 adults with no qualification trails 72% of compared French towns: 15%. Measured more widely, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in the typical compared French town.
Among 41 French towns of 1,927 to 2,582 people, the 3rd youngest
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Villejust (37.2), the youngest, and Prayssac (62.3), the oldest.
A younger town than 5 of the 6 around it: Peyrestortes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peyrestortes | 40.1 | 22% | 2.4% | 6.7% |
| Rivesaltes 9,270 · 1.7 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 3.1% | 9.3% |
| Espira-de-l'Agly 3,524 · 1.8 mi | 43.1 | 21% | 2.7% | 5.2% |
| Baixas 2,777 · 2.1 mi | 43.1 | 19% | 4.4% | 5.1% |
| Saint-Estève 11,630 · 2.9 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 1% | 7.2% |
| Pia 11,615 · 3.2 mi | 38.8 | 18% | 2.1% | 6.9% |
| Baho 3,231 · 3.9 mi | 48.5 | 22% | 1.3% | 6.6% |
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 Peyrestortes
What is the population of Peyrestortes?
1,927 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 41% more than in 2012 (1,365).
How old are Peyrestortes’ residents?
The median age is 40.1, younger than 79% of compared French towns. 24% are under 18 and 22% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Peyrestortes?
23, with occasional dwellings: 2.4% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Peyrestortes?
INSEE counts 130 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 6.7% of residents, and 64 foreign nationals (3.3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Peyrestortes?
€22,880 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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