Pissotte is older than 94% of compared French towns: a median age of 55.1
The share of couples with children trails 77% of compared French towns: 19%. Fewer households without a car than in 92% of compared French towns: 4.4%. Census day 2023: 1,132 residents and 500 households in Pissotte. 2.6% of households rent social housing (HLM).
Throughout this page, the Vendée 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 Pissotte
An older town
Half of Pissotte’s residents are under 55.1 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 35% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 15% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
−3% since 2012, a pace below 81% 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 same years the median compared French town changed +5%, the median Vendée town +9%. From 2012 to 2017 the change was −2%; from 2017 to 2023, −1%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 94% of compared French towns: 35%
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Pissotte 55.1. The median compared French town: 44.
Against a figure of 11% in the typical compared French town, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Pissotte comes in at 9%. The wider picture: 22% of residents are 65 or over in the typical compared French town.
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of one-person households than 71% of compared French towns, at 31%
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 Vendée median and the France median
Living alone · share
Average household size: 2.1 people. The wider picture: 35% of households are one person living alone in the typical compared French town. More single-parent households than in half of compared French towns: 10%.
Flats make up 2.6% in Pissotte, less than in 99% 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
10% of homes stand empty, against 6.7% in the typical compared French town. Add to that, on second homes, Pissotte sits higher than 75% of compared French towns: 4.6%. Against that, 30% of homes are flats in the typical compared French town.
€26,740 a year is the median standard of living here
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 €26,740 a year: higher than in 59% of compared French towns.
A higher share of households headed by a retired person than 83% of compared French towns, at 40%
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
The share of households headed by a manager or professional trails 77% of compared French towns: 6%. Elsewhere, nearly a third of households are headed by a retired person in the typical compared French town. For Pissotte, the census puts households headed by a manual worker at 12%.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
In Pissotte, 1.8% of residents are immigrants, fewer than in 94% 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.
Compared with 4.3% in the typical compared French town, 1.1% of residents are foreign nationals here. Measured more widely, 6.5% of residents are immigrants in the typical compared French town.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
19% of residents 15 and over are single, fewer than in 95% 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
Married residents make up 50%, against 43% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 25% of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Below 60% of compared French towns: 27% 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
Against a figure of 19% in the typical compared French town, the share of adults with no qualification in Pissotte comes in at 21%. The benchmark for graduates of higher education in the typical compared French town: 30%.
Among 41 French towns of 1,132 to 2,582 people, the 6th oldest
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.
Pissotte is older than every town around it
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pissotte | 55.1 | 35% | 4.6% | 1.8% |
| Fontenay-le-Comte 14,059 · 2 mi | 50.9 | 32% | 3.1% | 7.5% |
| La Châtaigneraie 2,600 · 11.1 mi | 55.1 | 35% | 3.1% | 4.5% |
| Saint-Jean-d'Hermine 3,611 · 13.1 mi | 42.4 | 22% | 5.2% | 3.1% |
| Benet 4,089 · 13.1 mi | 46.7 | 25% | 4.7% | 2.2% |
| Marans 4,476 · 15.4 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 4.1% | 2.6% |
| Saint-Jean-de-Liversay 3,063 · 15.8 mi | 42.2 | 20% | 5.9% | 1.7% |
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 Pissotte
What is the population of Pissotte?
1,132 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 3% fewer than in 2012 (1,167).
How old are Pissotte’s residents?
The median age is 55.1, older than 94% of compared French towns. 16% are under 18 and 35% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Pissotte?
27, with occasional dwellings: 4.6% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Pissotte?
INSEE counts 20 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.8% of residents, and 12 foreign nationals (1.1%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Pissotte?
€26,740 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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