In Terrats, 2.4% of households rent social housing (HLM), fewer than in 96% of compared French towns
Just over a quarter of households are one person living alone (typical compared French town: 35%). Terrats is home to 806 residents in 350 households, by the 2023 Census. Here, 6.2% of homes are flats. Households headed by a manager or professional are rarer here than in 75% 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 Terrats
Growing fast
Terrats had 668 residents at the 2012 census and 806 in 2023, up 21%: faster growth than in 91% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
A +21% change since 2012: faster than 91% 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
Over the whole period the median compared French town changed +5%, and the median Pyrénées-Orientales town +10%. The years 2012 to 2017 brought −4%; 2017 to 2023, +26%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 87% of compared French towns: 8.5%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Terrats 41.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Where just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town, Terrats has 19%. Typically, 11% of residents are 15 to 24 in the typical compared French town. With a median age of 41.8, Terrats is younger than 67% of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%.
Terrats: 29% of households are couples with children, above 71% 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
The typical household size is 2.3 people. To put it in context, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. Here, 11% of households are single parents.
A larger share of second homes than 83% of compared French towns: 7.2%
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 15, against 11% in the median compared French town. For comparison, 2.1% of homes are second homes in the typical compared French town. Households without a car: 6.7% of the total. Terrats has more empty homes than 61% of compared French towns, at 7.8%.
Standard of living at the median: €25,950 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.
At €25,950 a year per consumption unit, the median standard of living here is lower than in 50% of compared French towns.
Households headed by a retired person: 28%, a lower share than 75% 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 account for 14%. Typically, 32% of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
Only 1.8% of residents are foreign nationals in Terrats
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 lower than in 73% of compared French towns. The comparison figure for foreign nationals is 4.3% in the typical compared French town. Locally, 4.1% 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.
Terrats ranks below 82% of compared French towns on single residents: 21%
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
In the typical compared French town, the share of married residents is 43%; Terrats has 45%. For comparison, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Terrats ranks below 53% of compared French towns on adults with no qualification: 18%
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
Locally, 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification. Adults with no qualification: 19% in the typical compared French town, for comparison.
Among 41 French towns of 806 to 2,582 people, the 8th 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.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Terrats 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 Terrats
What is the population of Terrats?
806 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 21% more than in 2012 (668).
How old are Terrats’ residents?
The median age is 41.8, younger than 67% of compared French towns. 22% are under 18 and 19% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Terrats?
30, with occasional dwellings: 7.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Terrats?
INSEE counts 33 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.1% of residents, and 15 foreign nationals (1.8%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Terrats?
€25,950 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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