8.3% of households are headed by a retired person, below 99% of compared French towns
Second homes make up 6.2%, against 2.1% in the typical compared French town. The 2023 Census put Prades’s population at 123, in 52 households. Residents aged 65 and over: 27% of the total. Half are older than 49.8, older than just over four fifths of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Tarn 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 Prades
Fewer residents than in 2012
Prades had 144 residents at the 2012 census and 123 in 2023, down 15%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
A town of families
33% of households are couples with children and 8.3% single parents with children; 17% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Empty homes
The census found 9 homes empty (14%): for sale, to let, awaiting work or simply unused. Homes & cars ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Slower than most: −15% since 2012, behind 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 median Tarn town changed +7% and the median compared French town +5%; here the first five years brought −10% and the next six −5%.
Prades is older than 82% of compared French towns: a median age of 49.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Prades 49.8. The median compared French town: 44.
Compared with 11% in the typical compared French town, 8.3% of residents are 15 to 24 here.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
In Prades, 33% of households are couples with children, more than in 88% 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 Tarn median and the France median
Living alone · share
Against a figure of 35% in the typical compared French town, the share of one-person households in Prades comes in at 33%. The usual figure: 25% of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. The share of single-parent households stands at 8.3%.
Empty homes make up 14% in Prades, more than in 93% 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
Households without a car are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Empty homes: 6.7% in the typical compared French town, for comparison. 23% of households have been in place 30 years or more; 3.6% moved in within the last two years.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €25,550 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.
Living standards centre on €25,550 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 54% of compared French towns.
In Prades, 17% of households are headed by a manager or professional, more than in 81% 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
Set against 14% in the typical compared French town, 17% of households are headed by a manual worker in Prades. Measured more widely, 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).
Below 75% of compared French towns: 3.8% of residents are immigrants
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 Tarn has 6%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 75% of compared French towns. In the typical compared French town, immigrants come to 6.5%. For Prades, the census puts foreign nationals at 3%.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Prades sits below 96% of compared French towns for single residents (19%)
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
49% of residents 15 and over are married (typical compared French town: 43%). In the typical compared French town, single residents come to 25%.
Above 72% of compared French towns: 37% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification
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 the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification is 19%; Prades has 17%. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
14th highest median age among 41 French towns of 123 to 2,582
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.
Of the 6 towns nearest Prades, 1 are older
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 Prades
What is the population of Prades?
123 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 15% fewer than in 2012 (144).
How old are Prades’ residents?
The median age is 49.8, older than 82% of compared French towns. 19% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Prades?
4, with occasional dwellings: 6.2% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Prades?
INSEE counts 5 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 3.8% of residents, and 4 foreign nationals (3%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Prades?
€25,550 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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