Photo: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0Empty homes: 14%, a higher share than 94% of compared French towns
In Puylaurens, 27% of residents are 65 or over, beside 22% in the typical compared French town. This Tarn town had 3,257 residents in 1,490 households at the 2023 Census. 6.5% of homes are second homes, or about one in 15. Flats are rarer here than in 77% 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 Puylaurens
Empty homes
The census found 270 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.
Puylaurens changed by +1% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 67% 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
Against +5% for the median compared French town and +7% for the median Tarn town, the change came in two steps: ±0% from 2012 to 2017, then +1% to 2023.
Older than 73% of compared French towns: half of Puylaurens is over 47.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Puylaurens 47.8. The median compared French town: 44.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 77% of compared French towns: 9.3%.
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Only 22% of households are couples with children in Puylaurens
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
There are 2.1 people in the average household. Across the comparison, a quarter of households are couples with children in the typical compared French town. At 10%, the share of single-parent households is higher than in 56% of compared French towns. One-person households: 36%, above 55% of compared French towns.
Puylaurens sits below 78% of compared French towns for households without a car (6.2%)
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
Just over one in ten households moved in less than two years ago; 20% have been in their home 30 years or more. Lower than in three quarters of compared French towns: 7.3% of households rent social housing (HLM). In the typical compared French town, the share of households without a car is 11%.
A typical living standard of €23,650 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.
Per consumption unit, half of residents live on more than €23,650 a year: lower than in 75% of compared French towns. As for poverty, 18.0% of residents are below the line.
Households headed by a retired person make up 37% in Puylaurens, more than in 76% 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
11% of households are headed by a manual worker (typical compared French town: 14%). The share of households headed by a manager or professional stands at 8.7%. Against that, nearly a third 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).
4.6% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 67% 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.
Where 4.3% of residents are foreign nationals in the typical compared French town, Puylaurens has 2.7%. Measured more widely, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town. The median compared commune in Tarn has 6%; immigrants here make up a share lower than in 67% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
Puylaurens ranks below 67% of compared French towns on 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
For Puylaurens, the census puts single residents at 24%. Against that, 43% of residents 15 and over are married in the typical compared French town.
Fewer adults with no qualification than 54% of compared French towns: 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
The census found that 30% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Puylaurens. Against that, 19% of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 16th 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 36.5 in Lespinasse to 68.1 in Jard-sur-Mer.
Puylaurens sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbors on median age
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 Puylaurens
What is the population of Puylaurens?
3,257 at INSEE’s 2023 census, about the same as in 2012 (3,239).
How old are Puylaurens’ residents?
The median age is 47.8, older than 73% of compared French towns. 20% are under 18 and 27% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Puylaurens?
120, with occasional dwellings: 6.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Puylaurens?
INSEE counts 150 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 4.6% of residents, and 87 foreign nationals (2.7%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Puylaurens?
€23,650 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970); 18.0% of residents live below the poverty line. 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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