Below 98% of compared French towns: 2.9% of households are headed by a manager or professional
Flats are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Thurageau had 720 residents in 330 households at the 2023 Census. Here, 8.6% of residents are 15 to 24. The share of households in social housing trails 96% of compared French towns: 2.2%.
Throughout this page, the Vienne 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 Thurageau
Fewer residents than in 2012
Thurageau had 824 residents at the 2012 census and 720 in 2023, down 13%: slower growth than in 99% of compared French towns. Population ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
Thurageau changed by −13% from 2012 to 2023, slower than 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
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved −1%, and from 2017 to 2023 −12%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Vienne town +4%.
Older than 62% of compared French towns: half of Thurageau is over 45.8
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Thurageau 45.8. The median compared French town: 44.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (20%), Thurageau is below nearly two thirds of compared French towns.
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 113 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 3% in Thurageau, less than in 99% 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 Vienne median and the France median
Living alone · share
Couples with children make up 31%, against 25% in the typical compared French town. Across Thurageau, 33% of households are one person living alone. The usual figure: one in ten households are single parents in the typical compared French town.
5% of households have no car, below 88% 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
By its share of empty homes (8.6%), Thurageau is above 70% of compared French towns. Second homes are more common here than in 79% of compared French towns. As a yardstick, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Of all households, 7% moved in during the last two years and 29% have stayed three decades or more.
Half of residents have a standard of living above €25,000 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 €25,000 a year per consumption unit: lower than in 60% of compared French towns.
In Thurageau, 23% of households are headed by a retired person, fewer than in 89% 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, 21% of households are headed by a manual worker in Thurageau. By way of comparison, 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).
Fewer immigrants than 95% of compared French towns: 1.7%
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 share of foreign nationals is 1.4%, against 4.3% in the typical compared French town. By way of comparison, 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.
Thurageau ranks below 93% of compared French towns on single residents: 20%
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
Census figures put married residents at 44% in Thurageau. Set beside that, a quarter of residents 15 and over are single in the typical compared French town.
Graduates of higher education make up 27% in Thurageau, less than in 60% of compared French towns
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
On adults with no qualification, Thurageau sits higher than 52% of compared French towns: 19%. The comparison figure for graduates of higher education is 30% in the typical compared French town.
Of 41 French towns its size (720 to 2,582 people), the 20th 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.
Ages run from 37.2 in Villejust to 62.3 in Prayssac.
No nearby town is as old as Thurageau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
| Town | Median age | 65+ | Second homes | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurageau | 45.8 | 20% | 5.5% | 1.7% |
| Saint-Martin-la-Pallu 5,713 · 4.4 mi | 41.2 | 17% | 3% | 1.7% |
| Neuville-de-Poitou 5,513 · 6.5 mi | 45.3 | 24% | 1.2% | 2.1% |
| Jaunay-Marigny 7,528 · 7.7 mi | 41.8 | 20% | 2.9% | 3.4% |
| Cissé 2,869 · 9.1 mi | 42.7 | 19% | 2.5% | 2.3% |
| Dissay 3,101 · 9.2 mi | 42.3 | 19% | 2.2% | 2.5% |
| Beaumont Saint-Cyr 2,908 · 9.2 mi | 44.8 | 21% | 2.5% | 1.8% |
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 Thurageau
What is the population of Thurageau?
720 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 13% fewer than in 2012 (824).
How old are Thurageau’s residents?
The median age is 45.8, older than 62% of compared French towns. 21% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Thurageau?
21, with occasional dwellings: 5.5% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Thurageau?
INSEE counts 12 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 1.7% of residents, and 10 foreign nationals (1.4%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Thurageau?
€25,000 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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