Demography of Aveyron

With 270.321 residents, the Département of Aveyron is slightly populated. It is one of the departments less densément populated France (31 inhabitants with the km ²).

Pattern of the settlement

The population nevertheless is very unequally distributed on the constraté territory of Aveyron: In the cantons of Rodez, Decazeville and Villefranche-with-Rouergue, the density exceeds the 100 inhabitants with the km ². With Capdenac-Station and Millau, there is between 150 and 200 inhabitants with the km ². On the other hand the Aubrac, the Larzac and the Black Causse have very weak densities of population (7 inhabitants with the km ² with Saint-Chély-in Aubrac, 5 on the canton of Cornus on Larzac, 3 with Peyreleau in Black Causse).

Demographic history of Aveyron

The end of the 19th century knew a peak of settlement: 415.826 inhabitants in 1886, but since - and in particular following the war of 1914-1918 and the Rural migration - the department lost very many inhabitants. One estimates at 320.000 the number of aveyronnais of origin in the Paris region. It is it should be noted that a small community aveyronnaise settled with Pigüe in Argentine.

Projections INSEE for this beginning of 21e century confirm this decline: approximately 230.000 inhabitants awaited in 2030.

Moreover the population ages as on the remainder of the national territory. The Population pyramid of Aveyron would precede that of France of 2015: 28% of the population have more than 60 years, 23% less than 20 years.

The big cities located not far from Aveyron (Toulouse, Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand) attract the young populations and most strongly graduate.

See too

Demography of the Midday-Pyrenees

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