At the start of 2025, INSEE published the figures for the latest census of legal populations for 2022. South Lozère brings together the communities of communes Gorges Causses Cévennes and Cévennes au Mont Lozère, i.e. thirty-six communes. We note that the number of inhabitants remains around 12,000, to be precise 12,039 on January 1, 2022, or 91 less than five years ago.
At the start of 2025, INSEE published the figures from the latest census of legal populations for 2022.
Comparison with data from five years ago gives a complete overview of the evolution of the population of the territory, because all the municipalities have been enumerated at least once during this period. PETR Sud Lozère studied these figures.
Lozère had 76,503 inhabitants on January 1, 2022. How is southern Lozère, which brings together the communities of Gorges Causses Cévennes and Cévennes au Mont Lozère, i.e. thirty-six municipalities?
Maintaining the number of inhabitants
We note that the number of inhabitants remains around 12,000, to be precise 12,039 on January 1, 2022, or 91 less than five years ago. For fifteen years, the population has been oscillating at this level, this phenomenon is found for the whole of Lozère, which has hovered around 76,000 inhabitants since 2015. The population is stagnating and is not growing. By analyzing the figures more closely, two essential facts emerge which explain this flat curve: the aging of the population and the positive migratory balance.
An older population, like everywhere in France
The population actually appears rather old, following a trend that we find everywhere in France. However, it is more marked in Lozère and particularly in southern Lozère. 39% of the population is over sixty years old, compared to 34% for Lozère. These figures were 35% and 29%, respectively, ten years ago. With a natural balance still negative, more deaths than births, the population manages to stagnate thanks to the positive migratory balance which has persisted for more than 40 years, that is to say that there are more installations than departures to the territory.
Policies to welcome new populations carried out for several years thus seem to be bearing fruit. Despite the difficulties and crises, southern Lozère remains alive and inhabited, it continues to attract people looking for a life different from that led in the large metropolises.
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